Author Archives: Support

New Payroll Report – Gross, Overtime, Mileage

Posted on April 29, 2010 by Support

We added a new payroll report showing, by employee for a range of dates, their total gross regular pay, gross overtime pay, additional gross pay, total gross pay and mileage paid.

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Hospice – Certifying Physician Requirement

Posted on April 15, 2010 by Support

Medicare Hospice claims and notices of election require that the certifying physician appear in field 79 on a UB04 in addition to the attending physician which appears in field 76.  Changes have been made in HHC3000 to accommodate this requirement.  … Continue reading →

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New Physician / Patient Face-to-Face Encounter Requirement

Posted on April 15, 2010 by Support

It has been brought to our attention that under the new health care reform law, under section 6407, home health agencies will be responsible for assuring that physicians or other practitioners who refer a patient for home health or hospice … Continue reading →

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Bill Hours vs Visit Hours Warning

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Support

In Other-Setup / System Overrides / Security we added an override so that the system will not warn the user if the visit hours do not equal the billed hours.

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Update Notice – 12:00 Noon Update

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Support

The HHC3000 update version 4539, which includes yesterday’s changes is now available. Earlier this morning :  We were not able to put out the update on the internet last night (April 12th).  Sorry for any inconvenience.  Will will be putting … Continue reading →

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PPS Wage 2010 Wage Index Rates

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Support

We were notified by on of our agencies there were changes to the PPS Wage Indexes for 2010 from what was published at the end of last year.  We verified this with the CMS website and made the changes.  The … Continue reading →

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Patient On Call Listing – Added Current Care Plans & Schedule Directives

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Support

We added check boxes to the Patient On Call Listing report parameters to include the current care plan and schedule directive fields located in patient maintenance notes.

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Duplicate Drug Classification Report – Correction

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Support

The Patient Duplicate Drug Classifications report was not working due to changes in how medications were assigned drug classifications back in 2008.  Prior to 2008 drug classifications were assigned by selecting drug classification check boxes under Medications under a drug … Continue reading →

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PPS Rural Adjustment – 4/1/10

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Support

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed into law on March 23, 2010 created a 3% rural add-on to payments made for home health services to patients in rural areas.  Patients in rural areas would be those patients with … Continue reading →

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Good Friday, April 2, 2010 – Allegheny Software will be closed.

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Support

We will be closed on Good Friday, April 2, 2010.  The office will reopen Monday, April 5th at 9:00 am.  Have a good Easter holiday.

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