The INAMI nomenclature

The INAMI nomenclature gives each act its code, its official fee and the personal share the patient pays, ordinary or BIM. WideCare reads it to price the billed acts and the eAttest.

The catalogue

Invoicing → Customers → INAMI Nomenclature lists the codes:

  • Code: the 6-digit INAMI number;

  • Label (French) and Label (Dutch);

  • Profession: General Practitioner, Specialist Physician…;

  • Fee, Patient Share (Ordinary) and Patient Share (BIM);

  • Valid From and Valid Until: one line per version of the code.

The filter Without Fee lists the codes still waiting for their amounts.

Import the NomenSoft files

The INAMI publishes the nomenclature as NomenSoft tables: the tariffs (NOMEN_CODE_FEE_LIM) and the labels (NOMEN_CODE_DESC_HIST).

  1. Open Invoicing → Customers → Import INAMI Nomenclature.

  2. Choose the File (CSV or XLSX). Leave Layout on Detect from the header.

  3. Set the Profession, and the codes to keep in Only These Codes (separated by commas) to import only those.

  4. Click Import.

The Result says how many codes were created and updated. Import the labels file the same way.

For the tariffs file, three fee codes say which lines of the table carry the fee and the insurer’s intervention: Fee Code: Fee (0) and Fee Code: BIM Intervention (1300) come filled in; type the Fee Code: Ordinary Intervention, read in the NomenSoft table of fee codes (NOMEN_FEECODES), before importing.

Price an act

  • On a billable act, pick the INAMI Code: the code, the description, the unit fee and the patient share fill in.

  • On the Acts tab of a consultation, type the Code: Create Invoice finds the version in force on the day of the act and prices it.

A code without a fee keeps the amounts you typed: WideCare never guesses an amount.

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