Patients

Patients represent individual people who hold insurance policies. Each Patient has an “External ID” field, which should map to a user in your system.

It’s possible for a Patient to have multiple active policies, and historical, inactive policies.

All Policies associated with a Patient are called “Patient Policies”. This list will grow indefinitely, as their insurance changes and these Policies expire, they will remain in the system attached to historical Services.

The preference-ordered list of active Policies is considered the “Patient Insurance”.

External IDs

externalId is optional and intended to map Bridge resources to your internal system. Use it if you need to look up Patients by your own identifiers later. It will be included on financial reporting.