Department Fee Schedules
This page allows you to assign different fee schedules for different departments of your athenaEnterprise organization.
- A given payer can have only one fee schedule and one allowable schedule for a given date range per service department.
- A given payer must have one fee schedule and one allowable schedule in effect at all times in every service department.
On the Main Menu, click Settings > Billing. In the left menu, under Practice Links — Fee and Allowable Schedules, click Department Fee Schedules
This page is available for athenaEnterprise clients only. The Department Fee Schedules feature must be enabled for your practice.
- Display the Department Fee Schedules page: On the Main Menu, click Settings > Billing. In the left menu, under Practice Links — Fee and Allowable Schedules, click Department Fee Schedules.
- Provider Group — Select one or more provider
groups.
Note: If you do not want to filter departments by provider group, do not select an option in this menu. - Department — Select one or more departments.
- Fee Schedules — Select one or more fee schedules.
- Click Filter. The resulting display includes only departments in the provider groups that you selected.
- Display the Department Fee Schedules page: On the Main Menu, click Settings > Billing. In the left menu, under Practice Links — Fee and Allowable Schedules, click Department Fee Schedules.
- Locate the department in the list on the left side of the table.
- Locate the schedule at the top of the page.
- Select (or deselect) the appropriate schedule in the department row under the schedule column.
- Click Save.
The initial view of this page provides three menus: Provider Groups, Departments, and Fee Schedules. You can use these menus to create a limited grid of service departments and fee schedules. The grid you create allows you to specify which fee/allowable schedules correspond to which service departments.
You can hover over the department column heading to reveal the full name of the department.
The valid service departments are listed vertically on the left side of the table. (A valid service department must have the Service Department set to "Y" on the Departments page.)
The fee schedules and allowable schedules are displayed across the top of the table. A check indicates that the fee schedule or allowable schedule is used in the given department. Refer to the Fee Schedules page to administer fee and allowable schedules.
Note: Use extreme caution. Avoid assigning two fee or allowable schedules to the same department for a given payer, unless the schedules have different date ranges. The system does not prevent this automatically. If your practice has the Department Fee Schedules feature enabled, every department must be associated with at least one valid fee schedule.
Provider Groups |
Select one or more provider groups to display data for only the selected provider groups. |
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Departments |
Select one or more departments to display vertically along the left side of the grid. Select Show All to display all departments.
You can hover over the department column heading to reveal the full name of the department. |
Fee Schedules |
Select one or more fee schedules to display horizontally along the top of the grid. Select Show All to display all fee schedules. |