Analysis codes

Analysis codes are used to group procedures and transactions together into general categories and are useful to determine where the practice is making money. These codes are also used by the itemised billing program to determine the make-up of the bill.

For example: you may have 4 procedures relating to a broken left leg. These procedures could be given the same analysis code. Similarly all feline vaccination and canine vaccinations could be grouped together, allowing you to compare income from each category of vaccination.

Additionally, each code can be associated with a colour event - so that when an analysis code appears as part of a clinical line, the whole line is displayed in a different colour. This can be used to help you get a quick overview of the contents of a client's clinical record. To learn how to assign colour events to analysis codes (plus status codes and clinical lines) see Customisation.

Sample sets of codes:

It is advisable to group all similar analysis codes together e.g.

Using an option on the A.P. Utilities Menu you can log how long the staff are spending with animals by analysis category.

See also:
Tidy Up Records for a method of globally changing analysis codes.

Codes above 200 are used by the system. You should not use these codes when you are defining your own codes for the practice:

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