Category Archives: All Messages

Free Form / Generic 485

On the new free form / generic 485 we’ve had a few agencies request alternative wording the the physician’s signature section. In Other-Setup / System Overrides / 485s we added a memo box labeled “Alternative physician signature box wording”. If … Continue reading

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Medicare ‘G’ HCPCS Codes

We’ve been getting a lot of calls recently concerning the use of the new ‘G’ HCPCS codes for Medicare. In the past, for Medicare billing, one revenue code usually had a HCPCS code associated with it. For example, for 551 … Continue reading

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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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Export option added to Supply Usage Reports

Available on version 4693 is the ability to export all three supply usage reports – Supply Usage by Patient, Supply Usage by Employee and Supply Usage by Item.

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ANSI Version 5010

The ANSI 5010 Electronic Billing Format will be available on an HHC3000 update by the end of January. We will post another message when this update is actually available.

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New Home Health HCPCS Codes

The final rule for the Home Health PPS 2011 changes added new HCPCS codes for home health providers to report when billing physical therapy (PT), occupational therapy (OT), speech-language pathology (SLP) and skilled nursing (SN) services. CMS has released their … Continue reading

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