In this situation, I would have a Family table, an Individual Table, and a FamilyLink table The FamilyLink table would have its own ID column along with FamilyID and IndividulID.
This allows you to have one family with many members and one member as part of many families. Then you could bill to the correct FamilyLinkIDs referencing the correct family/individual combinations. Dennis McGrath Software Developer QMI Security Solutions 1661 Glenlake Ave Itasca IL 60143 630-980-8461 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> On Behalf Of J BLAUSTEIN Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 9:57 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: accounting question; medical billing systems Bill Add a family id with a separate user id - then you can bill either on a family base or individual and print reports on either level J On 5/29/2012 7:44 PM, William Stacy wrote: I'm restructuring my billing system to become more flexible and correct and would appreciate any suggestions/pointers from those more skilled than I. My restructure is mostly due to two things. One, I've always billed by family accounts, where one family member is assigned as the account holder. The problem arises now and then that a family member leaves the nest and either then has their own account, or joins another family which has its own account. The problem is with the old transactions of prior family members not showing up in account lookbacks. I know one popular way is to have everyone have their own accounts and just split family payments into their individual parts. It's not pretty, and requires more computing and more complex statements, but it would solve the problem. I've also been toying with handling it at the transaction line item level, assigning a permanent bill-to person/entity at that level which can also be used to handle 3rd party issues. Which is the other part of this restructure. TIA Bill -- William Stacy, O.D. Please visit my website by clicking on : http://www.folsomeye.net -- J. Blaustein J Blaustein Associates, Inc. 12 Herrick Drive Lawrence, NY 11559 516-371-3445 FAX 516-345-8009
