Emergency patient

fishdrzig · Post by **fishdrzig** » Tue May 12, 2009 4:34 am

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

Post by **jordansparks** » Tue May 12, 2009 7:00 am

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

fishdrzig · Post by **fishdrzig** » Tue May 12, 2009 8:22 am

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?

Rickliftig · Post by **Rickliftig** » Tue May 12, 2009 11:00 am

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

Post by **jordansparks** » Tue May 12, 2009 5:30 pm

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.

sparkly · Post by **sparkly** » Wed May 13, 2009 11:18 am

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.

Tracey · Post by **Tracey** » Tue May 19, 2009 7:50 am

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

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