Show total hours left in authorization
When an individual schedule is open, show not only how many hours are left for the week or the month, but how many are left for the entire authorization period. With insurance companies and Medi-Cal, we are given bulk amounts for the entire auth period which we can use any way we choose. We have some clients who, for example, are only authorized for 15 hours/week, but we schedule them for 25 hours/week because twice a year they take lengthy breaks from treatment. We have other clients who want lots of time when the client is in school and less when the client isn't, and vice versa. In situations like this, the authorized amount remaining per week or month is far less useful info to us than the total amount left in the authorization.