Pharmacy Co-payment Discounting

First decide if all, or only selected patients, are to receive the discount. Then follow the relevant instructions.

To Discount ALL Patients

From the main menu of Dispensary, go to

• 7. Administration, 1. Setup, then 4. Standard price parameters.
• Set CoPay adjustment to -5.00.
• Then press F12 Accept Details to save.

This will automatically remove a $5.00 from all prescriptions co-payments without further setup.

Note: This will also reduce $15 co-payments to $10. If there is no charge to the patient, i.e. $0 co-payment, then no claim will be made to Southern Cross.

To Discount SELECTED Patients

Set up a medicine fee and dispense it to relevant patients.

Set up the fee

This is only required to be done once.

• Go to 2. Stock control, then 4. Maintain medicine.
• Enter 99999301 to select the medicine which Toniq has added to help with discounting.
  • It will be named COPAY – DISCOUNT and have the following instructional dispensing note:
    
• Edit this medicine to
  • Set the Retail price to -$5.00,
  • Tick the Fee tick box and the No updates tick box,
  • Set Shortcut to copay, and
  • Delete the dispensary note instructions, and
  • Press F12 Accept Details to save.
    
    

Dispensing

Example: for an A4 patient who has 6 new script items with a $5.00 co-payment on each, dispense a quantity of 6 on the COPAY - DISCOUNT to give a discount of $30.00.

Reporting

A Dispensary Summary report cannot be run for a single medicine (or fee) but can be run for a medicine group.    

• Go to 2. Stock control, 9 Maintain medicine groups, and press F3 Add.
• Set the medicine group Name to Co-payment discounting and press F12 to save.
• Then go to 2. Stock control, 4. Maintain medicine, and select COPAY - DISCOUNT,
• Press F11 Next page twice, and press the spacebar to select the Medicine group Co-payment discounting, then press F11 twice and F12 to save.
• Go to 3. Reports, 1. Business analysis reports, and 1. Dispensary summary.
• Run the report for required date range and setting the Medicine group to Co-payment discounting.