Columns
| Column | Type | Size | Nulls | Auto | Default | Children | Parents | Comments | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| id | BIGINT | 19 | √ | null |  | 
 | The primary key which is the same as the forms.form_id column | ||||
| date | DATETIME | 19 | √ | NULL |  |  | Date and time of the encounter | ||||
| reason | LONGTEXT | 2147483647 | √ | NULL |  |  | The reason for the encounter | ||||
| facility | LONGTEXT | 2147483647 | √ | NULL |  |  | The facility or location of the encounter | ||||
| facility_id | INT | 10 | 0 |  | 
 | Unique identifier for the billing facility that will be used for this encounter. | |||||
| group_id | BIGINT | 19 | √ | NULL |  | 
 | FK to the therapy group that is attending for the encounter service | ||||
| encounter | BIGINT | 19 | √ | NULL | 
 |  | |||||
| onset_date | DATETIME | 19 | √ | NULL |  |  | The date when the condition or issue for the group started | ||||
| sensitivity | VARCHAR | 30 | √ | NULL |  |  | Sensitivity information related to the encounter as to who should be able to access / view this encounter | ||||
| billing_note | TEXT | 65535 | √ | NULL |  |  | Notes related to billing for the encounter | ||||
| pc_catid | INT | 10 | 5 |  | 
 | The encounter service category taken from ‘openemr_postcalendar_categories’ | |||||
| last_level_billed | INT | 10 | 0 |  |  | The party for whom payment was last billed. 0=None, 1=Ins1, 2=Ins2, 3=Ins3 | |||||
| last_level_closed | INT | 10 | 0 |  |  | The party for whom payment was last received. 0=None, 1=Ins1, 2=Ins2, 3=Ins3 | |||||
| last_stmt_date | DATE | 10 | √ | NULL |  |  | The date of the last statement | ||||
| stmt_count | INT | 10 | 0 |  |  | The statement count | |||||
| provider_id | INT | 10 | √ | 0 |  | 
 | Default and main provider for this visit | ||||
| supervisor_id | INT | 10 | √ | 0 |  | 
 | Supervising provider, if any, for this visit | ||||
| invoice_refno | VARCHAR | 31 | '' |  |  | Reference number for the invoice | |||||
| referral_source | VARCHAR | 31 | '' |  |  | Source of the referral | |||||
| billing_facility | INT | 10 | 0 |  |  | ID of the billing facility | |||||
| external_id | VARCHAR | 20 | √ | NULL |  |  | External ID associated with the encounter | ||||
| pos_code | TINYINT | 3 | √ | NULL |  |  | Place of service code | ||||
| counselors | VARCHAR | 255 | √ | NULL |  |  | Information about counselors related to the encounter | ||||
| appt_id | INT | 10 | √ | NULL |  | 
 | The calendar appointment id that this encounter is associated with or that this encounter was created from | 
Indexes
| Constraint Name | Type | Sort | Column(s) | 
|---|---|---|---|
| PRIMARY | Primary key | Asc | id | 
| encounter_date | Performance | Asc | date | 
| pid_encounter | Performance | Asc/Asc | group_id + encounter |