Category Archives: Patients

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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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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Patient – Religion

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Support

We added new field (Religion/Spiritual) to the Patient Misc. screen.  The field will print on the profile and intake forms.

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Source of Admission Codes – B,C Deleted

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Support

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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Physician Orders – New Types of Orders / Cert Period Dates

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Support

On the Physician Orders screen we added two new types of orders; Hospice Recertification and Hospice IDT Activity.  In addition we added the Certification Dates.

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Patient Authorizations Changes

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Support

On the authorizations screen under patient maintenance we added a “Authorizations vs Visit Only” column to the balance displays.  The existing balance column includes scheduled and unverified visits.  The new column includes only verified visits when calculating the balance.  This … Continue reading →

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Patient Contract Rates – Revenue Code Override

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Support

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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