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Medicare PPS Billing – Palmetto GBA Submitters

Palmetto GBA has announced they will begin implementation of the new Jurisdiction 11 as of January 22, 2011. For our users, this will affect agencies in the states of Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. … Continue reading

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Payroll – New Tax Rates

We found a bug in the new 2011 payroll FICA social security rates. Generating the payrolls works properly, but when updating to the G/L the employer expense journal entry was posting the same amount as the employee deduction for 2011. … Continue reading

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PPS Assessment Listing

We added a new report option, Domain Level [ZPIC], to the PPS Assessment Listing found under billing reports. This report option will show the clinical, functional, and service domain levels for each assessment along with percentages for each level to … Continue reading

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Plan of Care – Physician Face to Face Encounter

We have been reworking & improving the Generic / Free Form 485 Plan of Care that includes the physician face to face encounter, that we announced previously, and feel we are very close to the final format. Our tendancy at … Continue reading

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2011 Federal Taxes

Version 4692 and higher has been updated to include the 2011 federal payroll taxes. This update includes the change in the employee social security withholding rate to 4.2% for 2011, down from 6.2%. The employer expense accrual percent has not … Continue reading

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Face to Face Encounters

The upcoming changes to the 485 for the face to face encounters that we posted on November 19th were completed at the beginning of December. To see the changes, on a 485 change the alternative format to Free Form / … Continue reading

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Physician Face to Face Encounter – New Requirements

Below are the changes we plan to make in HHC3000 to satisfy the new physician face to face requirement that becomes effective January 1, 2011. First, we plan to add a checkbox in the 485 plan of care to include … Continue reading

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Version 4681 Update

If you updated last night or this morning to Version 4680 you should update to Version 4681. We had added a new checkbox in PPS Billing called “Resubmission.” When you go into PPS Billing this box is defaulting to being … Continue reading

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Generic 485

In the 485 we have added an additional alternative format called Free Form / Generic. When this format is printed it has basically the same information as the regular 485 but uses larger fonts, medications have a wider area to … Continue reading

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ICD9 Descriptions

If you are not happy with the ICD9 code descriptions that came with the 2010 code update, tonight we will be including a new set of ICD9 codes with short descriptions. The files we initially received from CMS this year … Continue reading

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