Overview
The consultation, the procedure, and the shelf
A typical derma visit produces three kinds of charge: the consultation, sometimes a procedure such as a chemical peel, cryotherapy, cautery, or a PRP session, and the medicines the patient leaves with. In ClinicNP all three go on one invoice with one number and one payment. Consultations and procedures are services from your own catalogue with their own rates; medicines come off the shelf by batch, with the unit picked by box, strip, tube, or tablet.
The dispensary is where a skin clinic gains or loses margin. Stock is held per batch with its own cost and expiry, the oldest expiry is sold first, and expired stock cannot be sold at all, with no override. Near-expiry stock is flagged at thirty, sixty, and ninety days so it can be moved before it becomes a write-off, and anything that leaves the shelf without being sold is recorded with a reason, including samples given away and stock used in the clinic. Profit by item shows which products actually carry the clinic.
Skin biopsies, KOH mounts, fungal cultures, and histopathology usually go to an outside laboratory. Each such service carries what the lab charges, and the outside-lab worklist follows the sample from collection to the report coming back and being handed over, with each stage time-stamped, so the question of whether a biopsy result is back has an answer on a screen. Each lab has a statement of what you billed, what it charged, and what you owe it.
Clinical photographs are taken at almost every derma visit. In ClinicNP they are attached to that visit as files, next to the findings and advice, and served only to logged-in staff. ClinicNP does not offer a side-by-side before-and-after comparison view; the photos are kept in order on the patient's visit history.
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