Re: [Gnumed-devel] demographics gnumed to oscar

[James Busser]

On Jul 3, 2006, at 1:05 AM, Syan Tan wrote:
> This might enable
>
> billing eventually, if someone can explain whether provider_no is  
> important, as I notice the billing page doesn't
>
> dropdown any providers for billing at the moment

Provider_no of the primary provider is stored in each patient's  
demographic record.

That value, I am sure, determines which doctor gets described as the  
default "Assigned provider".

Billing can however be done on behalf of another provider, for  
example the person who saw the patient in the absence of the usual  
doctor.

The popup for the billing provider filters only those records in  
provider that have a value in the field ohip_no (that is an Ontario,  
Canada-specific designation whereas in the GUI is is labeled  
"Provincial Insurance #:")

The billed item (created in the billing table) does use/store the  
provider_no