Why hospital bills go wrong
Hospital bills rarely go wrong on arithmetic. They go wrong at the handovers: a test charge raised in the laboratory and keyed again at the billing desk, a discount agreed at one counter that the next counter never hears about, an advance taken at night that the morning shift cannot see.
TechMediz removes the handovers rather than checking them. Each department raises its charge in the place where the work happened, against the patient's UHID, and the bill is the sum of those entries. There is nothing to re-key, so there is nothing to reconcile. How the parts fit together is walked through in how a hospital bill is actually assembled.
Billing at every counter
OP billing
OP billing and consulting run against the patient's doctor-wise check-in, and lab and scan requests raised in the consulting room carry their charges to the same visit. See OP management.
IP billing
Advance payment at admission and total bill calculation through the stay, with treatment, procedures and room transfers recorded as they happen. See IP management.
Pharmacy billing
Counter and non-counter sales, OP prescriptions billed at the pharmacy, and ward requests from IP issued onto the in-patient's bill. See pharmacy management.
Laboratory and radiology billing
Investigations ordered from OP, the ward or the nurse station are charged where they are ordered, so the test and its charge cannot drift apart.
Theatre billing
Barcode-based billing in the operation theatre, so consumables used on a case are charged by scan rather than by a list written up afterwards.
Package and insured billing
Package patients, corporate schemes, credit for eligible patients, and cashless or reimbursement insurance, handled in insurance and TPA management.
Payments, collection and control
Daily collection is tracked across OP, IP and pharmacy as it happens, so the day's position is visible on the day rather than at a month-end close. Emergency credit can be given from the nurse station when a patient cannot pay at the moment they need care.
The controls sit where the money leaves. Return bills and discounts go through two-level approval, and cancelled, edited and discounted bills for pharmacy, IP and OP come out as their own report — so a pattern shows up as a line on a page rather than as a gap someone finds later.
Integrated with accounts
Billing is the front of the ledger, not a separate program feeding it. Collections, expenses, supplier payments and doctor share sit in the accounts management module on the same data, and the rest of the back office — stores, purchase and pharmacy stock — is on the hospital ERP page.
