Billing Preference

The Billing Preference enables you to set the attributes that are used during:

• Account Creation and Modification Via Inbound Message – While creating or editing an account from the user interface or through a health care inbound message, the system enables you to define a billing preference characteristic for the account. Through the billing preference characteristic of an account, the system derives the bill cycle for the account from the Bill Cycle attribute of the billing preference.

• Repricing – While creating billable charges for an account, the system derives the bill period for the account from the billing preference. Note that the bill period is derived from the billing preference only when the Bill Period Derivation (C1-BILLPDRV) algorithm is attached to the Account and Price Item Derivation Post-Processing system event of the age based, tier based, additional fee, benefit, and/or discount charge pricing rule types.

• 9/10 Billing (Skip Months) – While billing membership premium to an account, the system determines whether any month of coverage period should be skipped for billing using the Skip Months attribute from the billing preference. If so, the system distributes the off months’ (i.e., skipped months) premium in the remaining months (i.e., non-skipped months) of the coverage period. You can specify one or more skip months in a billing preference which may be continuous or non-continuous. However, note that, you cannot skip all 12 months in a billing preference.

For more information about these attributes, see Defining a Billing Preference.

The system considers the billing preference defined using the characteristic type specified in the Bill Cycle Rule Code option type of the C1-ASOBLLNG feature configuration. You can define, edit, delete, and copy a billing preference using the C1-FieldMapping business object through the Field Mapping screen. While creating a billing preference, you must set the preference category to Billing.

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