| DESCRIPTION |
DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE.
is created for a patient. Exemptions are automatically created when
changes in patient information change the exemption status or when
an expired (older than 1 year) exemption is encountered when determining
the exemption status for pharmacy.
This file will contain specific information related to billing about
individual patients. Current Status of the Medication Copayment Exemption
will be kept in this file. Conceptually this is different than the
BILLING EXEMPTIONS File which maintains the audit log and historical data
related to billing exemptions.
Per VHA Directive 10-93-142, this file definition should not be modified.
Under normal operation it is not necessary to edit the fields in this
file directly. The option Manually Change Copay Exemption (Hardships) can
be used to update and correct this entry by creating a new exemption.
If many patient records have problems the option Print/Verify Patient
Exemption Status can be used to correct the entries.
The data in this file is updated each time a new (current) exemption
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