
<p><strong>CareLite IPD software manages the inpatient money trail from admission to discharge: bed allocation from a live bed board, automatic daily bed charges at ward rates, advances, transfers, consultant changes, interim bills during the stay, and a final bill at discharge with the advance applied so the patient pays only the balance.</strong></p>

<h2>Admission</h2>
<p>Admit against an existing UHID or register on the spot. The bed board shows every ward and bed with its current state — available, occupied, reserved, blocked or under maintenance — and an occupied bed carries the patient's name and IPD number. Two counters admitting at the same moment cannot take the same bed: the second is told it has gone and nothing half-saves.</p>

<h2>Bed charges</h2>
<p>Charges post automatically for each day of stay, at the rate set for that ward in the applicable tariff, either on a calendar-day basis or on completed 24-hour blocks depending on how the hospital charges. The job is safe to re-run: charges post from the last charged date, so running it twice never doubles the bill. A transfer posts the stay so far at the old bed's rate before the patient moves, so a move from general to ICU does not retrospectively reprice the earlier days.</p>

<h2>Money during the stay</h2>
<p>Advances are taken at admission or any time after, and each shows how much has been adjusted and how much is still refundable. Services, procedures and consultations post to a running interim bill that the ward desk or the family can see at any point. A running balance is visible on the admission screen throughout, so nobody discovers a problem at discharge.</p>

<h2>Discharge</h2>
<p>Discharge posts bed charges up to the discharge time, converts the interim bill into a final bill under the IPD number series, applies any unadjusted advance, generates doctor payout on the closed bill, and releases the bed — in one action, all or nothing. The advance appears separately on the printed bill and is never deducted twice. If a balance remains it stays outstanding against the final bill rather than blocking the discharge.</p>

<h2>What is recorded</h2>
<p>Every bed transfer, consultant change, discount, cancellation and refund carries a reason, a user and a timestamp. Discharge type — normal, against medical advice, referred out, or expired — is recorded and reportable.</p>
