- Understand Assistant Billing, visit article in Resources - Prepare for Private Practice - Assistant Surgery
- Assistant is setup in Contact Management - Assistants. Visit article Use Direct CONTROL Desktop version - Contact Management for further information
Medicare no longer accept an assistant and primary surgeon claim on the same invoice. The only way to submit a claim for an assistant is to create it's own invoice where the Assistant is the Billing Entity.
- Enter the Assistant details in Utilities - Entities
- Select Can be an Assistant
- Ensure you add the Surgeon as a Referrer/Surgeon from Contact Management or the Client Record
- Select the correct category (discipline) for the surgeon as on calculating the Assistant Item Code, if the Referrer is O&G, the correct Assistant Code (51306 or 51309) will be billed instead of the 51300 or 51303.
- On invoicing, the Entity is the Assistant
- Check the Assistant Box
- The Zero Non Assistant Items button appears on the bottom right-hand side of the invoice above the Comments / Notes field
- Enter the Surgeon's Item Codes and other relevant detail on the invoice
- The correct Assistant Item Code appears and calculates the correct fee
- Select Zero Non Assistant Items button to zero the values from the Surgeon's Items
- If wanting to charge an OOP, select Charge OOP, it will default to the maximum amount for the Health Fund, this can be altered
- You can now either transmit this electronically or print or email