Billing & finance
Tariff / Rate Card
The hospital's configured price list — the standard rates charged for each consultation, service, investigation and procedure.
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A tariff, or rate card, is the master price list a hospital maintains for every billable item — consultations, room categories, procedures, investigations and consumables. Hospitals often run more than one tariff for different payer types, such as general (cash-paying) patients against corporate or scheme rates for empanelled groups.
Why it matters in a hospital
Without a consistent, centrally maintained tariff, the same service can end up priced differently depending on who happens to be billing that day — which is both a revenue-control problem for the hospital and a fairness problem for patients. A well-maintained tariff is also what turns an annual price revision into a single, controlled update, rather than a hunt through dozens of billing screens and staff habits to change one number everywhere it appears. A clear tariff also strengthens a hospital's hand when negotiating a scheme or corporate rate: if it can't quickly show what it charges a general patient for a given service, it starts that conversation from a weaker position.
How Trisvio handles it
In Trisvio, the tariff master drives automatic pricing on every bill, so charges stay consistent across staff, shifts and departments, and updating a rate flows through to all new bills immediately without touching historical, already-settled ones. Multiple tariffs can be maintained side by side — general, corporate, scheme — so the right rate applies automatically once a patient's category is set at registration, rather than being chosen manually on every bill by whichever staff member happens to be at the counter that day.
Related
Related terms
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- Final BillThe consolidated bill produced at discharge covering all services, less advances and adjustments, showing the net payable.Read definition →
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- Advance DepositMoney collected upfront, especially at admission, held against the patient's account and adjusted in the final bill.Read definition →
- Cost EstimateA pre-treatment document giving the patient the projected cost of a planned procedure or admission before it begins.Read definition →
- Corporate / Credit BillingBilling an empanelled employer or organisation on credit for its employees' treatment, rather than charging the patient directly.Read definition →
- CGHS (Central Government Health Scheme)A government scheme providing healthcare to central-government employees and pensioners; hospitals may be empanelled at CGHS rates.Read definition →
- Concession / WaiverAn authorised reduction or waiver of hospital charges, such as a management, staff or charity concession on a bill.Read definition →
- FEFO (First-Expiry-First-Out)Dispensing the batch that expires soonest first, rather than the one received first, so stock is used before it can expire.Read definition →
- GRN (Goods Receipt Note)The record made when stock physically arrives from a supplier, capturing batch, expiry, quantity, cost and tax for each line received.Read definition →
- Hospital ERPEnterprise resource planning applied to a hospital — finance, stores, HR and procurement, usually alongside rather than instead of an HMS.Read definition →