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I am covering for another dentist, have a patient coming in and just want to enter her as an emergency patient. How would/do you do it? Thanks

Maybe mark them inactive when you're done with them?

That makes sense, how about when I enter them, is there a check box somewhere that says emergency? Maybe default to a different color on the appointment sheet?

In this situation, I have also set up new billing types - Patient of Dr. XXX, Pt. of Dr. YYY, etc.

I would recommend not getting carried away with billing types. It just makes the billing process confusing. Billing types are for billing and aging purposes.

I just list EMERGENCY as their referral source (or the name of the doc you're covering for if you do it frequently enough). Then I mark them inactive when tx+pmt is done. If you ever need a list of these people that you've seen, you can run a referral report and see them all in one place.

Is there any place we are supposed to be placing the patients emergency contact information. It would be great to see it under the pts information highlighted in red. I have been putting them in adress and phone notes Thanks Tracey