Account Examples

Example One

• Anna wantes to use Pracsoft. Therefore, she must have an account created for her.
• Anna is the Practice Manager, and will never need to bill patients. Therefore her account type will be that of 'User'.

  Example Two

• Doctor Smith wantes to use Pracsoft. He is a clinician who intends to bill patients for services. Therefore his account type will be that of 'Practitioner'.
• Because he intends to bill patients for services, and conduct online claiming, he must record a Provider Number. He only has one Provider Number, because he only works for one Practice. He creates an 'active practitioner' account in Pracsoft in which to record this information.
• He will only ever be working on-site at the Surgery, so this is what he records in the Location field in his record.

  Example Three

• Doctor Gahan is a practitioner who works for a Practice that has a single branch - a single location. Because the Practice has a single location, Dr. Gahan has one Provider number.
• However, he also does home visits, and the Practices need to keep a record of these consultations separate to those conducted at the Practice itself. Therefore, Doctor Gahan creates two 'registered practitioner' accounts in Pracsoft; one with a location field of 'Practice' and one with a location field of 'HomeVisits'. Both accounts use the same Provider Number.

  Example Four

• Doctor Jones works for a Practice that has two branches. Each branch is located in a different suburb (and therefore, different physical locations). Although the Practice has two different locations, each shares the same ABN, and the same patient database.
• Because Doctor Jones will be working at two different addresses (despite them being for the same Practice), Medicare assigns her two different Provider Numbers. She sets up two different 'active practitioner' accounts in Pracsoft - one for each Provider Number. And in the Location field for each record, she records the name of the branch it relates to.