Treatment Plan Discount v14.3

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Treatment Plan Discount v14.3

Post by teethdood » Tue Sep 09, 2014 9:13 am

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Re: Treatment Plan Discount v14.3

Post by allends » Tue Sep 09, 2014 9:40 am

"Per patient discounts can be applied to Treatment Plan procedures. The discount amounts will be based on a percentage of the total procedure fee."

From the page: http://opendental.com/manual/treatmentp ... ounts.html

A feature request could be added as an option to switch between total procedure fee or patient portion.
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Re: Treatment Plan Discount v14.3

Post by teethdood » Tue Sep 09, 2014 10:09 am

I see that statement, and I agree that it should be off of the total procedure fee.

However, the discount is 100% offloaded to the patient. This is totally unworkable as is, because if the patient pays $0, that is considered insurance fraud.
It's not so much as a new feature request. I'm just pointing out that there's a bug in the original math. The discount needs to apply to both the insurance portion AND the patient portion, not solely offloaded to the patient portion.
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Re: Treatment Plan Discount v14.3

Post by Arna » Tue Sep 09, 2014 10:43 am

The discount field was intended to be used for practices offering a discount plan so that they no longer have to create a dummy insurance plan to have discounts reflect on Treatment Plans. PPO plans should not utilize this feature, as there are contractual obligations that are handled through Fee Schedules and Benefit percentages.
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