Medical Item Price Lists Administration

Pricelists of medical items are tools for specification which medical items and at which prices can be invoiced by contractual health facilities to the scheme administration. Administration of pricelists of medical items is restricted to users with the system role of Scheme Administrator or with a role including an access to Administration/Pricelists-Medical Items.

Pre-conditions

A price list of medical items may only be added, after an agreement with a health facility or a group of health facilities on specific prices. Editing of the price list may occur only after an approval of the management of the scheme administration. Deletion of a price list of medical items normally will occur when a price list becomes obsolete.

Price List Medical Items Control Page

The Price List Medical Items Control Page is the central point for all medical item price list administration. By having access to this panel, it is possible to add, edit, delete and search. The panel is divided into four panels (Image 48).
  1. Search Panel

    The search panel allows a user to select specific criteria to minimise the search results. In the case of price lists for medical items the following search options are available which can be used alone or in combination with each other.

    • Name

      Type in the beginning of; or the full Name; to search for price lists medical items with a Name, which starts with or matches completely, the typed text.

    • Date

      Type in the full Date to search for price lists of medical items with a creation Date which matches completely, the typed date. Note: You can also use the button next to the date field to select a date.

    • Date Selector Button

      Clicking on the Date Selector Button will pop-up an easy to use, calendar selector (Image 45); by default the calendar will show the current month, or the month of the currently selected date, with the current day highlighted.

      • At anytime during the use of the pop-up, the user can see the date of today.
      • Clicking on today will close the pop-up and display the today’s date in the corresponding date entry box.
      • Clicking on any day of the month will close the pop-up and display the date selected in the corresponding date entry box.
      • Clicking on the arrow to the left displays the previous month.
      • Clicking on the arrow on the right will displays the following month.- Clicking on the month will display all the months for the year.
      • Clicking on the year will display a year selector.
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      Image 46 - Calendar Selector - Search Panel

    • Region

      Select the Region; from the list of regions by clicking on the arrow on the right of the selector to select price lists of medical items from a specific region. The option National means that the price list is common for all regions. Note: The list will only be filled with the regions assigned to the current logged in user and with the option National. All nationwide pricelists and all regional pricelists relating to the selected region will be found. If no district is selected the also all district pricelists for districts belonging to the selected region will be found.

    • District

      Select the District; from the list of districts by clicking on the arrow on the right of the selector to select price lists medical items from a specific district. Note: The list will be only filled with the districts belonging to the selected region and assigned to the currently logged in user. All nationwide pricelists, all regional pricelists relating to the selected region and all district pricelists for the selected district will be found.

    • Historical

      Click on Historical to see historical records matching the selected criteria. Historical records are displayed in the result with a line through the middle of the text (strikethrough) to clearly define them from current records (Image 47).

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      Image 47 - Historical records - Result Panel

    • Search button

      Once the criteria have been entered, use the search button to filter the records, the results will appear in the result panel.

  2. Result Panel

    The Result Panel displays a list of all price lists of medical items found, matching the selected criteria in the search panel. The currently selected record is highlighted with light blue, while hovering over records changes the highlight to yellow (Image 48). The leftmost record contains a hyperlink which if clicked, re-directs the user to the actual record for detailed viewing if it is a historical record or editing if it is the current record.

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    Image 48 - Selected record (blue), hovered records (yellow) - Result Panel

    A maximum of 15 records are displayed at one time, further records can be viewed by navigating through the pages using the page selector at the bottom of the result Panel (Image 49)

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    Image 49 - Page selector- Result Panel

  3. Button Panel

    With exception of the Cancel button, which re-directs to the Home Page, and the Add button which re-directs to the Price List Medical Item Page, the button panel (the buttons Edit and Delete ) is used in conjunction with the current selected record (highlighted with blue). The user should first select a record by clicking on any position of the record except the leftmost hyperlink, and then click on the button.

  4. Information Panel

    The Information Panel is used to display messages back to the user. Messages will occur once a price list medical item has been added, updated or deleted or if there was an error at any time during the process of these actions.

Price List Medical Item Page

  1. Data entry

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    Image 50 - Price List Medical Item Page

    • Name

      Enter the name for the price list of medical items. Mandatory, 100 characters maximum.

    • Date

      Enter the creation date for the price list of medical items. Note: You can also use the button next to the date field to select a date to be entered.

    • Region

      Select the Region; from the list of regions by clicking on the arrow on the right of the selector to enter the region in which the price list of medical items is to be used. The district National means that the price list is common for all regions. Note: The list will only be filled with the regions assigned to the current logged in user and with the option National. Mandatory.

    • District

      Select the District; from the list of districts by clicking on the arrow on the right of the selector to enter the district in which the price list of medical items is to be used. Note: The list will be only filled with the districts belonging to the selected region and currently logged in user. It is not mandatory to enter a district, not selecting a district will mean the price list of medical items is used in all districts of the region or nationwide if the region National is selected .

    • Medical Items

      Select from the list of available medical items the medical items which the price list medical item contains, by either clicking on the check all box at the top of the list of medical items, or by selectively clicking on the check box to the left of the medical item. The list shows the medical items displaying the code, name, type and price for reference. There is also an extra column, Overrule, which can be used to overrule the pre-set price. By clicking once on the row desired item in the overrule column, a new price can be entered for the individual item. This occurs when price agreed between a health facility or group of health facilities and the health insurance administration differs from the common price in the register of medical items.

  2. Saving

    Once all mandatory data is entered, clicking on the Save button will save the record. The user will be re-directed back to the Price list Medical Items Control Page, with the newly saved record displayed and selected in the result panel. A message confirming that the price list of medical items has been saved will appear on the Information Panel.

  3. Mandatory data

    If mandatory data is not entered at the time the user clicks the Save button, a message will appear in the Information Panel, and the data field will take the focus (by an asterisk on the right of the corresponding data field).

  4. Cancel

    By clicking on the Cancel button, the user will be re-directed to the Price List Medical Items Control Page.

Adding a Price List of Medical Items

Click on the Add button to re-direct to the Price List Medical Item Page.

When the page opens all entry fields are empty. See the Price List Medical Item Page for information on the data entry and mandatory fields.

Editing a Price List of Medical Items

Click on the Edit button to re-direct to the Price List Medical Item Page.

The page will open with the current information loaded into the data entry fields. See the Price List Medical Item Page for information on the data entry and mandatory fields.

Duplicating a Price List of Medical Items

Click on the Duplicate button to re-direct to the Price List Medical Item Page.

The page will open with all the current information for the selected price list, (except for the price list name which should be unique), loaded into the data entry fields. See the Price List Medical Item Page for information on the data entry and mandatory fields. To save the record, enter a unique code before clicking on Save.

Deleting a Price List of Medical Items

Click on the Delete button to delete the currently selected record; the user is re-directed to the Price List Medical Items Control Page.

Before deleting a confirmation popup (Image 51) is displayed, which requires the user to confirm if the action should really be carried out?

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Image 51 - Delete confirmation- Button Panel

When a price list of medical items is deleted, all records retaining to the deleted price list of medical items will still be available by selecting historical records.