Package and implant price caps

Settle an admission on a package: charges already inside the package, implant price ceilings with their dates, and what is held for documents.

The question it answers

Is the package being billed twice, and is the implant priced within its ceiling?

You give it: A package, its bill, extra charges, and each implant with its price, GST, date and documents.

You get: What is deducted, what is held until documents arrive, what is payable, with flags for a long stay.

The idea

A package price already covers a lot, so the worksheet checks what was billed on top and whether each implant is within its price ceiling.

Rules that run, in order

1. The package rate caps the package line
2. Separate charges for what the package covers are deducted
3. Each implant against the ceiling in force on its date, with GST
4. An implant without a verified sticker and invoice is held
5. A stay beyond the package average is flagged

How well the rules are sourced

The stent ceilings come from secondary reports of the NPPA order and carry a review date (Secondary). The unbundling rule is Practice. The other rules are Draft. Knee ceilings are not supplied: the reviewer enters one with its dates.

What it does not do

The packages are fictional. It does not know any real hospital agreement, and it never decides a claim.

Steps

1. Pick the package and enter the bill. Choose a package from the fictional agreement and enter what was billed for it and the dates of stay.
2. The package rate caps the package line. The amount payable is the lower of the amount billed and the contracted rate. The excess is deducted.
3. Charges inside the package are unbundled. A separate charge for something the package already covers is deducted in full, unless a documented complication is ticked, in which case it is payable and flagged for review.
4. Each implant meets its ceiling. The allowed price is the NPPA ceiling in force on the service date, plus GST. Anything above it, per unit, is deducted. Where no ceiling is in the data, the page says so.
5. Unverified stickers are held. If the sticker and vendor invoice are not verified, the amount within the ceiling is held until they arrive.
6. A longer stay is flagged. A stay beyond the package’s average length is flagged unless a complication is documented. Every rupee ends up deducted, held or payable.

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