Category Archives: Billing

Bill Hours vs Visit Hours Warning

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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PPS Wage 2010 Wage Index Rates

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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PPS Rural Adjustment – 4/1/10

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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Source of Admission Codes – B,C Deleted

The NUBC has determined that point of origin codes B=”transfer from another home health agency” and C=”readmission to the same home health care agency” are not consistent with the definition.  As of July 1, 2010 CMS will no longer accept … Continue reading

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Patient Contract Rates – Revenue Code Override

Under Patient Insurance / Patient Contract Rates we added override codes for the revenue code and HCPCS code that can be used with the insurance & service combination.  If not blank, these override codes will supersede what has been established … Continue reading

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PPS Status Report – Episode End Dates

The PPS Status Report can now be run for a range of episode ending dates.  In addition, if a episode would normally end after the end date you selected, but the patient was discharged within the date range selected for … Continue reading

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Billing – 7 Minute Rounding Rule for Billed Hours

Under Insurance Company/UB04 and 1500 there is a new check box labeled “Use 7 minute rounding rule for billed hours.”  If used, when the hours are entered on a visit, the system will round the billed hours (only) to the … Continue reading

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PPS Status Report – Added Employee to Export File

In September 2009 we added the employee to the PPS Status report.  The employee was not setup to be included in the export file.  That has been fixed.

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New Security Features

Under Other-Setup / System Overrides / Security there is a new options to block the user from editing the billing date or billing date paid fields in visits and timesheets.  There is also a new option to block the user … Continue reading

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New Features – 4504

Schedules – On the employee work schedule calendar we added a report parameter that will allow you to run the calendars for active employees only. Billing – We added a new Rebills/Holds report.  The report is located in two places, … Continue reading

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