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Manage accounts, fees, claiming, billing and banking in Bluechip.
Account Management
In Bluechip, the term Account refers to a record of accounting transactions.
Creating Accounts
Creating Accounts for In Hospital Claiming (IHC)

Finance
Manage accounts, fees, claiming, billing and banking in Bluechip.
- Account Management
  In Bluechip, the term Account refers to a record of accounting transactions.
  - Account Details Window Overview
  - Account File Numbers
  - Account Health Fund Memberships
  - Account History
  - Account Transactions
    From the Account Transactions window you can view all transactions for a selected account.
  - Closing Accounts
  - Creating Accounts
  - Debt Collection
  - Deleting Accounts
  - Health Fund Membership
  - Printing Account Labels
  - Write-offs
    A write-off is used when an invoice has been issued with the expectation that the debt will be paid in full, but where circumstances have led the practice to the conclusion that the debt will never be paid. For example if the patient has passed away.
- Fee and Service Item Management
- Billing and Online Claiming

Creating Accounts for In Hospital Claiming (IHC)

Before you begin

Procedure

Open the patient's record.
From within the Patient Explorer, select Accounts from the Margin menu.
Click Create new account. The New Account window appears.
- Select Day Surgery as the practitioner to bank to.
- Select IHC for the Class. The Issue To field is automatically set to 'Health Fund'
Click OK. to save the new account. The Account Details window appears.
- Indicate the Health Fund this patient's IHC account is billing for.
- Enter the patient's account details for their health fund.
- Enter other account details if desired. See Account Management, Account Details Window Overview, and Health Fund Membership for more information on this window.
Click OK.

Results

You are returned to the patients Accounts list, where the new IHC account is now present.

What to do next

This concludes the steps required for creating a new IHC account for your patient. Now you can create estimates, or invoices for the account.