Quickbooks 2006 question:  I am doing bookkeeping for a medical
practice. There are several patients who are invoiced for services,
and their invoices are paid in whole or in part by a third-party payor
(e.g., Blue Cross or Medicare). When I receive a payment from the
third-party payor (e.g., Blue Cross), how can I assign portions of
this lump-sum payment to the individual patient accounts without the
individual patients' invoices being lumped into a global Blue Cross
invoice?

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Clarification of Question by brainsurgeon-ga on 03 Dec 2005 01:59 PST

For example I have the following patients and corresponding invoices:

Patient A $100
Patient B $200
Patient C $300

Blue Cross sends me a check to cover all 3 patients. The check is for
$550 because they only pay 50% of Patient A's bill and fully pay the
bills for patients B and C. How can I assign $50 to Patient A, $200 to
Patient B and $300 to Patient C while still maintaining the individual
patients as separate customers from Blue Cross?