Re: [Gnumed-devel] Billing/LedgerSMB gap analysis

[Sebastian Hilbert]

On Friday, June 10, 2011 08:52:29 AM Chris Travers wrote:

Hi Chris,

> There are a few specific challenges regarding medical billing which
> break down into some larger more general problems which LedgerSMB is
> not prepared to gracefully handle.  There are ways to accomplish this
> provided that specific functionality.  The major issue here is third
> party billing.  You have a patient who accrues billable amounts, and
> some of that may need to be collected after insurance pays their
> portion.  In other words, this billing split is a bit of a challenge.
> What you need to be able to do is to be able to track what insurance
> paid vs co-pay, or if it is pushed back, what the total owed is.
> 
> i don't htink this is reasonably doable in 1.2 for a number of
> reasons.  At least with 1.3, we have better payment handling and
> separation of duties to ensure integration isn't a mess.
> 
I have seen that LedgerSMB is progressing. Any thoughs/news on a possible 
GNUmed interaction ?

Regards,
Sebastian