Applying Sliding Fee Schedules to Charges

When a Sliding Fee Schedule is attached to a patient or guarantor account profile, the Sliding Fee Schedule can be applied against charges for an encounter and the application automatically calculates the adjustment.

You can right-click on a line item in the Encounter Maintenance window and either remove or apply a sliding fee adjustment. If the insurance for a patient is discovered to be expired after charges have been applied to the encounter, the patient becomes eligible for a sliding fee adjustment. You can apply the sliding fee adjustment on the line item in the Encounter Maintenance window.

Sliding Fee Schedule attached at the encounter level overrides Sliding Fee Schedule attached at the patient level. You can also attach more than one Sliding Fee Schedule to an encounter.

This process can occur in three ways:

• On Demand
• In Batch Mode
• Automatically at the time when you enter a charge on the Charge Posting window, if the encounter is patient self-pay