Monthly Archives: February 2013

Therapy Counts

We have made changes to the Patient Cert Period Ledger, PPS Billing Summary, and PPS Therapy Status Reports.  These changes were made to exclude non-covered visits in the counts to determine the 13th and 19th visits and to also indicate … Continue reading

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Patient Activities View Screen

The “View” button located in patient activities now shows the date sent and returned.  If the user has full access or security for the feature, then the user will be able to make date changes and post them to the … Continue reading

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Physician Communications

The communications tab in Physicians has been changed to include communication notes, progress notes, and missed visits.

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Medicare New Location Codes

Medicare has announced that as of 7/1/2013, in PPS billing they want to capture the location where the home health services are performed using HCPCS codes Q5001, Q5002, Q5009.  As we read the requirements, we understand them to mean that … Continue reading

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HIPPS Code Calculation Change

A change was made in version 5186 to the OASIS HIPPS calculation to allow the 1st secondary diagnosis code (M1022 b.)  to be scored as primary if the preceding diagnosis code (M1020 a.)  is a non-case mix ‘V’ code and … Continue reading

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Hospice NQF 0209 Pain Tracking

Under the patient insurance tab there are new fields to help you record and track pain associated with Hospice patients.  In addition a new communication note type, ‘Hospice NQF 0209 Pain” has been added to the communication note.  We plan … Continue reading

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Tracking Document Input Times

There is a new button at the bottom of the patient activity page labeled ‘I/O’, short for in and out.  Pressing the button on a document will show each time an employee worked on the document, showing the employee’s name, … Continue reading

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Electronic Remittances

If you are having problems getting your electronic remittances to post, you will need to get version 5183 or higher.  We made some changes recently, for a couple of agencies to help electronically post remittances for insurance companies that have … Continue reading

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