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User Roles & Permissions in Hint Core

This article explains how to change user roles & what each user role can do

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Written by Tasha Demkiw
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User Roles & Permissions Overview

A user can be assigned one of nine roles. Here's what each role can do:

Admin

The 'Admin' role gives users full access within the Hint platform. Admin users have the following abilities:

  • Change admin (account configuration) settings

  • Edit patients

  • Edit employers/employees

  • Manage memberships

  • Manage patient invoices (create, issue, void, revise, etc.)

  • Manage employer invoices (create, issue, add charges, void, return to draft, etc.)

  • Process payments

  • Issue refunds

  • Issue credits

  • Add notes

  • View and export reports

  • Add broker deals to memberships

  • Add and edit inventory items

Manager

The 'Manager' role gives users access to managing the account but prevents them from changing any account configuration settings. This means that they do not have access to the Admin menu or Broker Accounts/Commissions settings (though they can add broker deals to memberships.

Manager users have the following abilities:

  • Edit patients

  • Edit employers/employees

  • Manage memberships

  • Manage patient invoices (create, issue, void, revise, etc.)

  • Manage employer invoices (create, issue, add charges, void, return to draft, etc.)

  • Process payments

  • Issue refunds

  • Issue credits

  • Add notes

  • View and export reports

  • Add broker deals to memberships

Staff

The 'Staff' role gives users access to patient and employer information but limits their access to account configuration settings and reports. Staff users have the following abilities:

  • Edit patients

  • Edit employers/employees

  • Manage memberships

  • Create, issue, & void patient invoices and sponsor invoices (though they cannot revise issued patient invoices)

  • Add charges to sponsor invoices

  • Process payments

  • Issue credits

  • Issue refunds

  • Add notes

  • Add broker deals to memberships

Staff Limited

The 'Staff Limited' role gives users the ability to mange patients and employees but limits access to certain action on patient accounts. Staff Limited users have the following abilities:

  • Edit patients

  • Edit employers/employees

  • Manage memberships

  • Create, issue, & void patient invoices and sponsor invoices (though they cannot revise issued patient invoices)

  • Add charges to sponsor invoices

  • Process payments

  • Add notes

Reports Only

The 'Reports Only' role limits access to the patients and employers sections in Hint. Users under this role will not receive any email notifications from Hint. Reports Only users users have the following abilities:

  • View and export reports​

Staff Limited and Reports

This role combines both the Staff Limited and Reports Only roles together. Users with this role have the following abilities:

  • Edit patients

  • Edit employers/employees

  • Manage memberships

  • Create, issue, & void patient invoices and sponsor invoices (though they cannot revise issued patient invoices)

  • Add charges to sponsor invoices

  • Process payments

  • Add notes

  • View reports

Read-Only 

  • Read more about this role here.

Read Only And Reports

'Read Only And Reports' users will be able to:

  • View and export reports

  • View patients

Though these users will be able to open patient profiles and view demographic & membership information, they will not be able to make any changes.

'Read Only And Reports' users will only receive the new patient email notifications.

Practice Billing Only

This role allows a user to only access the 'Billing' Tab under Admin --> Accounts. This is for anyone in your practice who needs access to your Hint Invoices but should not have any access to PHI. As a 'Practice Billing Only user, you can:

  • See any issued, paid and past due invoices owed to Hint

  • Update your payment source we use to process payment on invoices owed to Hint

Restricted By Location Groups

'Restricted by Location Groups' users can only see patients assigned to location groups that the user has access to. Read more about these users here.

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