Hospice Agencies will need Main Office Software version 6121 dated 03/27/17 and Clinical point Of Care Software version 2552 dated 03/28/17 for the updated HIS Admission and HIS Discharge effective April 1, 2017. Agencies will need to complete the Patient Race found on each patient demographic screen by accessing the “R” button and marking all Races that apply. The HIS Item A1000 has been added to the same section as M0140. Agencies will also be required to complete the patient’s Payer Source A1400 for the HIS Admission. The Item can be found only in the Main Office Software Patients/Insurance/Hospice/Election Certification and CAHPS tab. If the patient’s zip code, where care is provided is different from the patient’s zip code entered as the address in the Demographics screen, an override can be found in the same location just above the A1400 item.
All new HIS Admission items have been added to the HIS Item set with skip patterns.
The His Discharge has been updated with an additional tab in the main Office software only to accommodate the new items. Agencies should follow the previous instructions posted on Allegheny Messages related to setting up and updating services to accommodate the HIS Discharge Service Utilization. The previous post was titled Required Set Up for New HIS Discharge Service Utilization Summary. The post was Dated 02/21/20017. Once Services are updated and visits by discipline are entered into the software, agencies will need only select the “Pull Patient Visits” button to populate the number of visits by specific discipline for the day of death and up to 6 days prior to death.
There will be no new changes to creation of the HIS xml files.