I’m not sure that it is a good idea from a privacy perspective as the square invoices are simply sent as regular e-mails. 

I agree privacy is an issue for turning receipts into SuperBills.  This could be fixed with an email release.  However, for these receipts to be useful to my clients as a Superbill, I would need to add CTP, ICD10, and the receipt would have to have my Tax ID, NPI, and licensing information.  This is EHR territory.  If Square creates their own EHR, I’m all for it.  Right now they only integrate with Dr Chrono.

Just thought of a possible (?) workaround. I sometimes need to bill a patient but don’t have their e-mail. You can create an invoice and e-mail it to yourself and then print and mail it. This is what I’ve done. I don’t put the patient’s name or any of their diagnosis on the bill. I only put their initials, their office ID, the date of service, the bill amount, and the reason I am billing them ( deductible, co-pay, etc). I wonder whether this would work for people. It may not be considered safe enough because it still does go as an email. The only thing is is that it’s just going to you. That said, I’m sure that square has, or could make, an easy way, simply to print out the invoice directly without going via email. I just don’t know that. It’s not as straightforward as emailing, but it is perfectly HIPAA compliant 

does square offer a self scheduling service on line for clients

Agree fully with need for option for making and tracking partial payments over time. I made a similar comment above. But, I can’t see how HIPAA-compliance can work with the product. They can’t keep the invoice delivery as a simple e-mail, which is convenient for us and our customers, if it is to be compliant. They would have to utilize some secure e-mail delivery system, which would make it less straightforward for out patients and us. 

I try to get around this (and it may not work for others) by not using the patient’s name anywhere (I identify them by my own office ID number, for my own record keeping, and by their initials, so that they know which family member I am billing). I don’t use CPT codes or Dx codes anywhere as it doesn’t matter for my purposes. So, I do something like this:  $119 for DT for DOS 1/6/23 for deductible. 

One possible option for Square, but I have no idea how easily that could implement this, might be for them to allow us to create the invoice internally on our own phones or computers and then for us to locally also password-protect the invoice pdf with a password that the patient and we have agreed to (and that is not stored in the Square system anywhere) and then for us to feed it back to square for delivery. Not straightforward but no HIPAA issues with standard e-mail if encryption is used and the password is never sent in an e-mail. 

Anyway, just some thoughts. 

Yes, I too would like this.  

Agree with this idea.