Contains data on the patient's payers, whether a 'third party' insurance, self-pay, other payer or guarantor, or some combination of payers, and is used to define which entity is the responsible fiduciary for the financial aspects of a patient's care. Each unique instance of a payer and all the pertinent data needed to contact, bill to, and collect from that payer should be included. Authorization information that can be used to define pertinent referral, authorization tracking number, procedure, therapy, intervention, device, or similar authorizations for the patient or provider, or both should be included. At a minimum, the patient's pertinent current payment sources should be listed.
status
ACTIVE
Fully-Specified Name
component
Payment sources
property
Find = Finding
time
Pt = Point in time: To identify measures at a point in time. This is a synonym for “spot” or “random” as applied to urine measurements.
system
^Patient
scale
Doc = Document: A document that could be in many formats (XML, narrative, etc.)
method
Additional Names
short name
DOC.MISC; Document; Financing and insurance; Finding; Findings; MISC; Payers; Point in time; Random