The Patient Unapplied Payments amount is an accumulation of the patient's payments not applied to services. If a patient makes a co-pay payment and that payment is entered prior to the services being entered, the co-pay payment is accumulated in the Unapplied Payments field. You enter unapplied payments through Charge Entry. At a later time, someone can apply the Unapplied Payments to the appropriate services.
Notes:
You can view the Patient Unapplied Payments during Patient Entry - Balance Detail Window.
The system updates this field, so you do not normally need to edit it.
Format: 7.2 numeric