A standard price structure in DP Billing can be established with a billing profile.  A billing profile defines a number of parameters including the basic price, the display of line-items, billing rules, collection and laboratory fees, discounts and administrative fees.  The billing profile can easily be assigned when creating a new company.  With this structure you can define a set of billing profiles that describe your standards, either a single standard or categories such as "silver, gold, platinum" or "basic, preferred", etc.

 

Once a billing profile has been assigned to the billee then you have more options.  You can assign additional billing rules and/or test price schedules to the billee or the company (or the home base).  This makes it possible to use the basic parameters established in the billing profile, but change specific aspects for the one company in question.

 

For example, consider a TPA where the clients are divided into two categories; high and low volume.  A billing profile describes the prices for each of these, such as low-volume clients get a "bundled" rate for each test and high-volume clients have the collection site fee broken out from the test fee, which varies depending on which site is used.  Now, consider that your sales person is negotiating with an attractive prospect and promises them a lower price than your high-volume billing profile.  When the deal is made and you are setting that company up in DrugPak, assign then the high-volume billing profile, but then create a new test price schedule with the lower price.

 

Let's add another situation to that example.  Consider that a prospective client has two locations and each deserves a different price.  In that case, you would create the new company and assign it the appropriate billing profile, but then, when creating the home bases that represent the two locations, you can assign different test price schedules to either or both of the home bases.

 

*NOTE* When assigning a test price schedule to a billee, a company or a home base, only the prices in that test price schedule will be applied!  This means that if you set special prices for random selection and for pre-employment but do not set a "standard", if there is a different test type (such as post-accident) DP Billing will not use the price from the billing profile.