Updated 10/3/2019

There are some patients you may not want to send a billing statement to. These patients could have a special billing circumstance they have worked out with the doctor or they may be family/VIP patients that are not billed like regular patients.

You can prevent patients who fit these situations from receiving billing statements by assigning them to a “No Statements” billing type and then exclude that billing type the next time you generate statements.

To assign patients to a specific billing type:

1. Select the patient in the Ledger.
2. Click File > Billing/Payment Agreement (or click the Billing/Payment Agreement button.
3. In the Billing Type list, select the billing type you want to use for the patient.
   
4. Click OK. The patient is now assigned to the new billing type. The updated billing type appears at the bottom of the Ledger window in the gray area.

Once you have assigned the patient to a specific billing type, when creating billing statements, you can exclude that type in the billing types range you set. And remember that you can change a patient’s billing type at any time, so that if their situation changes, you can easily incorporate them back into a billing type that is billed regularly.

Additional Information

1. • For additional information on creating a “No Statement” billing type (if you don’t already have one), see the Customizing Billing Types or Setting Billing Types topics in Dentrix Help.
   • For additional information on generating statements, especially on selecting a range of billing types to include in your statement run, see the Generating Billing Statements topic in the Dentrix Help.
   • If you read this article looking for how to exclude a billing statement from an existing batch, please see our previous post titled, Verifying Billing Statements to Send.
   • If you read this article looking to avoid resending a billing statement to a patient who was sent a statement within a certain time frame, please see our previous post titled, Using the “If Not Billed Since” Option When Generating Billing Statements.