| GENERAL DESCRIPTION |
PRCASER This routine is used for setting up or establishing a new charge
(bill) for a debtor. When calling this routine, a new charge (pharmacy
Co-Pay, etc, should be added to the patients account.
Input Variable: X
$P1: Site. This is the site number the charge is being created by. For
example: 503, 516, etc. This is the station number field from the Institution
file (4).
$P2: Service. This is the service that is creating the bill. This is the
pointer to the Service/Section file (49).
$P3: Category Number. This is the AR Category that the charge should fall
under. This is the pter to the AR Category file (430.2).
$P4: Debtor. This is the debtor that the charge should fall under. This is
a variable pointer to the following files: Vendor, Person, Insurance,
Institution. For Pharmacy Co-Pay the debtor should be the patient in the
format of "36;DPT(" whe re 36 is the internal number of the patient in the
patient file.
$P5: Fiscal Year. Fiscal Year charge should be charged to.
$P6: Amount. Must be zero or greater and less than 9999999.99.
$P7: User. The person who created the charge. Pointer to the User file (3).
$P8: Date charge generated. This is the internal VA FileMan date the charge
was issued.
Output Variable: Y (if no error is encountered)
P1: Internal Bill Number. This is the internal file number from the Accounts
Receivable file (430).
$P2: Charge ID. This is the .01 field from the Accounts Receivable file
(430) and will be 10 characters in length.
$P3: Transaction Number. Since an "OPEN" bill may already exist and can be
used, it may be necessary to add this charge to an already existing bill as a
transaction, then this would be the pointer value to the AR Transaction file
(433). Howev er, if a new bill is set up for the current charges then this
piece equals zero.
Variable: Y (if error is encountered)
$P1: Error Indicator. -1
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$P2: Error Code. This is the error code from the IB Action Error file.
$P3: Additional Text. If additional text is required to describe the error
it is in the third piece.
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