OnSTAFF 2000
CHARGES
This option allows the user to post and modify charges, post monthly finance charges, add, modify, view and delete Encounters and UB92-Encounters. When the Charges option is selected from the Main Menu, On-Staff will display the following:
CHARGE MENU
Charge Encounter Modify UB-Encounter Finance Charge Exit
Menu Options:
Charge This option is used to post charges incurred by patients.
Encounter This option is used to Add, Modify, View or Delete the patient's HCFA 1500 claim detail information. Refer to Session III, Chapter 2 for information regarding Encounter.
Modify This option is used to modify previously posted charges.
UB92-Encounter This option is used to Add, Modify, View or Delete the patient's UB92 claim detail information. Refer to Session III, Chapter 2 for information regarding UB92-Encounter.
Finance Charge This option is used to post monthly finance charges.
Exit Returns you to the Main Menu.
Charges/FINANCE CHARGE
The Finance Charge option will apply finance charges based on how you have entered the software requirements. To apply a monthly finance charge, select the Finance Charge option from the Charge Menu and On-Staff will display:
APPLY FINANCE CHARGE
Would You Like To Proceed(Y/N)?
N Will return to the Charge Menu.
Y Will prompt:
This is Your Last Chance Would You Like To Proceed?(Y/N)?
N Will return to the Charge Menu.
Y Will apply the finance charge. As On-Staff is processing this request, the screen will seem to be frozen. When the process is complete, you will return to the Charge Menu.
Finance charges will be included on the daily journal as well as the financial for provider FC. Only under specific circumstances may finance charges be globally reversed, thus, the importance of not duplicating the posting but posting only once a month. Deleting a finance charge may be done on an account per account basis through /Charges/Modify. Finance charge posting may be automated.