Pricing groups can be a powerful tool when you want to consolidate your price options and simplify your billing process. They allow you to assign a group to both payers and price options, making it easier to manage multiple pricing structures across various accounts.
Benefits of Using Pricing Groups
Using pricing groups enables you to create a single price option and link it to multiple payers, eliminating the need to create separate price options for each individual payer. This consolidation can save time and reduce complexity in managing your pricing.
Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Pricing Groups
1. Create the Pricing Group
To begin, you’ll need to create the pricing groups that will be associated with your payers and price options.
Navigate to:
Management > Billing Setup > Pricing Group
To create a new pricing group, click the blue + icon in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.
2. Assign the Pricing Group to a Payer
After creating your pricing group, you’ll need to assign it to a payer or plan.
Navigate to:
Management > Billing Setup > Payers
Here, you can assign the pricing group to a specific payer or payer plan.
3. Assign the Pricing Group to a Price Option
Once the payer is linked to a pricing group, it’s time to associate the pricing group with a price option.
Navigate to:
Management > Billing Setup > Pricing
Here, you can add the pricing group to a price option.
4. Set Default Price Option for the Payer
Once a pricing group is linked to a price option, that price option will be used for invoicing whenever the assigned payer is relevant.
For example, imagine you create a price option called "Commercial." If the Commercial pricing group is assigned to one or more payers, the system will automatically select this price option under the following conditions:
The price option is set as the default.
The patient is linked to one of the payers assigned to the Commercial pricing group.
There are no conflicting default price options or price option attributes that would trigger a multiple price option hold.
5. Additional Criteria for Price Options
When a pricing group is linked to a price option, the system evaluates all the attributes in the price option configuration to determine the appropriate option to apply. These attributes include:
Location
Payer
Payer Plan
Product Specific
The system will search for a price option that aligns with the relevant criteria, ensuring the correct price option is selected according to your predefined rules.
Pricing groups are an essential feature for streamlining your pricing and payer management process. By linking payers and price options under a single pricing group, you can simplify your workflow and avoid creating individual price options for each payer. Once set up, the system will automatically apply the appropriate price option based on the criteria you define, saving time and reducing errors in billing.