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Read your billing snapshot

Understand the room calculations and prompts that change as you edit a day.

Quick answer: The billing snapshot applies the app's current rules to the records available to it. It shows the time and base value recorded for the day and month, the remaining room, and the support-time room. It is a review aid, not a claim decision.

Last reviewed October 9, 2026

What the numbers mean

Number	What it tells you
Today	The time recorded for the selected day across the four categories.
Month	The time recorded in the selected billing month, compared with the prorated monthly maximum.
Support	Indirect care plus clinical administration, compared with the available support pool.
Current value	The estimated base value of the normalized time. It is not a payment forecast.

FHO+ Billing overview showing today's total, month-to-date time, support pool, and estimated base value — The overview is a live check on saved and entered time. Its value is an estimate, not a payment forecast.

Why the snapshot changes

Direct care and out-of-office telephone care form the base used to calculate support-time room.
Adding indirect care uses the support pool and can reduce the room available for clinical administration.
Saved entries elsewhere in the month affect monthly room and monthly ratios.
Changing a category can change several numbers at once. That is expected because the limits are related.

What a prompt means

Prompt	What to check
Daily limit	The four categories together may be over the 56-unit daily maximum.
Monthly limit	The saved month may be over its prorated maximum.
Support pool	Indirect care plus clinical administration may be over 25% of monthly hourly time.
Clinical administration	Clinical administration may be over its separate 5% ratio.
Missing entry	The calendar has a day with no saved entry or explicit zero record. It does not prove that work was missed.

Respond to a warning

Open the day or month named by the prompt.
Compare the entry with your source records. Check the date, category, units, and activity description.
Correct the record when it is wrong. Do not remove truthful time just to make a prompt disappear.
If the entry is correct but the result is still unclear, compare the totals with the current Ministry or OMA guidance before billing.

What the snapshot cannot know

It cannot see hours or claims kept only in your EMR, billing software, or another FHO+ account.
It cannot decide whether a specific service, patient, location, or task meets the FHO+ agreement.
Its estimate does not include shadow billing, premiums, special payments, relativity adjustments, or payment corrections.

Important notes

The app's room calculation is a ceiling. It does not create billable time that you did not work.

Sources

Browse all FHO+ Billing guides

Introduction — Use this help center to understand the app, the FHO+ hourly categories, and the checks to make before billing.
Start here — Set up the app once, record the day while it is fresh, and review the month before you prepare claims.
Log a day — Enter the time you worked for one service date and keep the four categories separate.
Read your billing snapshot — Understand the room calculations and prompts that change as you edit a day.
Use the time tools — Measure one work block or total several blocks before applying the result to Today.
Review a month — Use Calendar to find blank days, correct records, and check the month before claim preparation.
Create presets and weekday rules — Reduce repeated entry while keeping the saved record tied to what actually happened.
Export records and prepare claims — Create a readable date-range report and a code-by-code summary for your normal billing workflow.
Manage local data, sync, and backups — Know where your records live before you change browsers, devices, or accounts.
Use FHO+ Billing across devices — Set up FHO+ Billing on web and iPhone with the same account, then check whether your preferences and saved billing records have synced.
Review FHO+ billing records before export — A practical review checklist for Ontario FHO+ physicians using FHO+ Billing to check service dates, categories, limits, saved entries, and reports.
FHO+ billing terms for Ontario physicians — A plain-language glossary of FHO+, hourly-rate categories, Q-codes, rostered patients, billing units, and continuity terminology used in Ontario physician guidance.
If the numbers look wrong — A short diagnostic checklist for totals, room calculations, missing days, and saved data.
Check eligibility — Use the patient, service, physician, and location as the starting point before you choose an hourly code.
Choose a fee code — Keep the four hourly categories consistent in Today, reports, and billing software.
Indirect care vs clinical administration — Separate the two support categories that are easiest to confuse.
Rates, units, and rounding — Convert the time in each category into claim units and the correct base value.
Daily and monthly caps — Check the shared daily maximum and the prorated monthly maximum before submitting a large day or month.
Support-time ratios — Keep indirect care and clinical administration within the two monthly ratios.
Document a claimed day — Keep the daily totals and activity summaries needed to support hourly claims.
Prepare and check a claim — Move from the app's saved records to your normal OHIP billing process without missing the claim details.
Virtual care and other settings — Use location and service type to place virtual care, home visits, and long-term-care work in the right category.
Learners and locums — Apply the hourly guidance when teaching during care or covering an FHO practice as a locum.
Fix common mistakes — Run this checklist before you send a large claim or finish the month.
What changed on April 1, 2026 — A short guide to the FHO+ changes that sit beside the hourly-rate program.
Continuity and outside use — Understand the continuity measure without confusing it with hourly time tracking.
Official sources and dates — Go to the documents that govern or explain FHO+ billing when a rule is unclear.