Admit Patient
This page allows you to admit a patient to a hospital department in your practice or enterprise.
Note: Claims created for services during the inpatient stay are displayed on the Admit History page. Claims resulting from an appointment do not appear on that page.
User access and permissions
Your practice must have the Patient Rounding List feature enabled, and you must have the Manage Patient Rounding Lists user permission to access this page.
Step-by-step instructions
To record a hospital admission
- Display the Admit Patient page: On the Quickview, next to Currently admitted to, click Admit patient.
- Admit date — Enter the date the patient was admitted.
- Discharge date — Enter the date on which the patient was discharged from the hospital. (Blank if patient is currently admitted.)
- Rounding department — Select the department that admitted the patient.
- Admitting provider — Select the provider who admitted the patient.
- Attending provider — Select the provider who cared for the patient.
- Primary insurance — Select the patient's primary insurance.
Note: Insurance information defaults to the patient's current primary and secondary insurances. - Secondary insurance — Select the secondary insurance if applicable.
- Notes — Enter any notes that relate to this admit/discharge.
- Room — Enter the hospital room number that the patient occupied.
- Bed — Enter the hospital bed number that the patient occupied.
- Click Save.
To update admission
information for a patient
- Display the Admit Patient page: On the Quickview, next to Currently admitted to, click Edit admission.
- Edit fields as needed.
- Click Save. The previous page (Check-in or patient Quickview) reappears.
Creating claims for hospital admissions
If you select the patient insurance when you create the record for a hospital admission, you can create a claim right from the Quickview, from the hospital admission history, or from the Manage Patient Rounding Lists page using the create claim link.
Field Reference
| Currently admitted to |
Displays the department of admission if the patient has been admitted and includes links to edit admission, discharge patient, and view admit history. Otherwise, displays "Not admitted." |
| Admit date | The date that the patient was admitted to the hospital. |
|---|---|
| Discharge date | The date that the patient was discharged from the hospital. (Blank if patient is currently admitted.) |
| Rounding department |
The department that admitted the patient. Note: If the Rounding List Department field on the Departments page is set to Y, the department appears on this list. If set to N, the department does not appear on the list. |
| Admitting provider | The provider who admitted the patient. |
| Attending provider | The provider who cared for the patient. |
| Primary insurance |
The patient's primary insurance. |
| Secondary insurance | The patient's secondary insurance. |
| Notes | Any notes that relate to this admit/discharge. |
| Room |
The room that this patient occupied. |
| Bed |
The bed that this patient occupied. |