Business Partner 

Purpose

The Business Partner component includes persons or entities with which your institution maintains business relations.

A business partner can assume the following functions:

·        Other hospital

·        Insurance provider

·        Patient's employer

·        Physician

·        Employee of the hospital

·        Customer (self-payer, for example)

·        External ordering party (country version Switzerland)

·        Fee recipient (country version Switzerland)

Integration

Select this component if you wish to

·        Map insurance relationships (and for components that make use of these, such as copayment or invoicing)

·        Store transfers from or to other hospitals

·        Document attending, referring or postdischarge physicians.

To map business transactions with customers in Financial Accounting (FI), you must also select the  Accounts Receivable Accounting component under Financial Accounting.

Features

For Information On	See
Introduction	Business Partner Concept
	Business Partner Identification Key
	Business Partner Search
	Creation of Business Partners: Strategies
General business partner and business partner functions	General Business Partner Data
	Creating General Business Partners
	Business Partner Functions
	Creating Business Partner Functions
	Business Partner Administrative Data
	Blocking Business Partners
	Displaying the Blocking Interval of the Business Partner
	Unblocking Business Partners
	Flagging Business Partners for Deletion
	Canceling the Deletion Flag for Business Partners
Evaluations	Determining Insurance Providers Without Customers
	Determining IS-H Customers Without FI Customers