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Does anyone find it odd that you can't increase a fee on a single procedure globally? I want to increase the fee on D1110 (prophy) for all scheduled appoinments in the future and have been told by support that I must go to each appointment to make the change. I find that very odd and unwieldy that it can't be done in a more efficient manner. This definitely needs to be updated, even Softdent would do this easily when I had it. There are currently 33 feature request that have the word fee in them and I don't see one that applies... I want the software recognize when a fee is increased in the list for it to show up on previously scheduled appointments. Thanks for any help/suggestions

Thanks

So we already have the global fee update. But you're saying the problem with that is that it will force the fee up date on all procedures rather than just on one code? The request would probably go like this:
"Global update fees for single procedure codes." I would add that request for you right now, but I'm in front of the wrong computer.

Before adding the feature request, could the poster explicitly state that the global fee update has been considered, and let us know the circumstances where that would not suffice?

Nathan.. I want to increase my prophy (cleaning) fee 5 dollars. I want that to be reflected in all the procedures (prophys) that are already scheduled. I don't want to go in to each appointment since the patients are scheduled 6 months+ in to the future, meaning that I have 6 months of 2 hygienist schedules to deal with. Currently I have to go in and change the fee on every patient that is already in the schedule to get them up to the latest fee. If I decided to raise xrays next week then the process would have to be repeated. I don't raise the fees globally by a specific percentage. I prefer the flexibility of evaluating and raising the procedure fee to a specific dollar amount.

you could just update your prophy on the fee sched and then run the global update tool, then change the rest of your fee sched and only the prophy's will be affected

David, I don't think that's quite what he meant. He doesn't want to increase fees for any other procedure codes.

i think so....just only half of what I said....maybe this is more clear

1. update the prophy fee on the fee schedule
2. run the global update tool and all the existing prophy's will update to the new fee and nothing else will change

is this what you are looking for klinlv?

Right, but OD doesn't currently do that.

jordansparks wrote:Right, but OD doesn't currently do that.

Can a query be written to find all Prophys that are treatment planned (not completed), and change the fee?

We strongly discourage queries that alter data. It causes so many problems and leads to instability in the database. It's not worth it. It would be better to vote for that feature.

Jordan

It seems that QUERY #226 does what klinlv is asking.