Software Enhancements for Improved Efficiency in Assessment Diagnosis Coding and Obtaining Clinician Final Electronic Approval

Main Office software version 5969 dated 5/26/16 will have new screens available in the “PPS What If” button to improve efficiency for main office Coders reviewing clinician documentation, completing coding and sending the changes to the clinician for review, acceptance and final electronic approval.  Agency coding personnel can complete coding without opening or editing to the data entry screens of an assessment.  The “PPS What if”button and screens have been updated for “PPS Review/What if”.  The Control Board Cert Period screen will allow Coders to filter for the most recent OASIS assessments completed .  Once an assessment is selected and the orange “Load” button is initiated, the new PPS Review/What if button is available for selection.  A new document tab is now available at the top of the PPS Review screen providing a read only document format.  The Diagnosis tab will allow coders to complete the Diagnosis Codes for M1021, M1025, M1011 and M1017.  The  Clinical, Functional, Therapy and Margin tabs will continue to display the point yielding OASIS questions and estimated number of visits for historic ‘What if’ functionality.  The right side of the new screens allow for recalculation of HIPPS code and PPS dollar amounts and the Print Change sheet that have also been available historically.  New buttons will allow the Coder to post changes to the data entry fields.  Posting changes will remove the clinicians electronic approval.  A change sheet will be provided with a summary of the changes and any errors or warnings.  The software will now provide a secondary window for the coder to also update the 485 with the coding changes and send the changes back to the Clinician for review and approval.

For Server based Clinical Point of Care software users, the coder will mark the documents for re-approval, “Mark R/A”.  Clinicians will see the marked documents in their Re-approval screen.  Review of document changes and re-approval must be completed by editing the document from the re-approval screen.

For Managed Hosting Clinical Software users the Coder will send the clinician a Notification.  The software will create the Notification using the Change sheet information and include any errors or warnings.  Clinicians will need Clinical Software version 2442 dated 5/26/16 in the Managed Hosting Environment.  Clinicians will see the Notification detailing the changes and any errors or warnings in their My Notices screen.  When the Notice is selected the Clinician will now see a new button “Open Document” in the upper right corner of the screen.  By selecting the “Open Document “button the assessment will open, the clinician can review the changes and when exiting can apply the final electronic approval.

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PECOS

A new PECOS file is available for download

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Converting Scheduled Visits to Visit Assessments in Locally Installed Clinical point of Care Software

Agencies and Clinicians using the Clinical Point of Care Software that utilizes the Data Pipe for data synchronization can now convert scheduled visits created in the main office to a Visit (Assessment) in the Clinical Point of Care software.  Agencies will need main Office software version 5962 dated 05/10/16 or later.  Clinical Point of Care software users must have version 2437 dated 05/10/16 or later.  Clinical software users will have available 7 days of scheduled visits that have been created in the Main Office software after downloading the most current data from the main office system.  The Clinician  can access the scheduled visits by selecting the blue colored ‘Schedules’ button found on the right side of the Clinical Patient Listing screen.  Upon opening the Schedules screen, the clinician will select the ‘Calendar’ button found in the top left of the screen.  Scheduled visits will display in date order with the current date at the top of the screen.

To convert a scheduled visit, the clinician will select the scheduled visit by placing the black arrow beside the record or highlighting the record blue that will be converted.  Once the record is identified, the clinician will select the button in the upper right corner of the screen, ‘Convert to Visit’.  The software will open the screen containing the billing information.  It is the same screen the clinician is used to when adding a visit assessment directly into the software.  The clinician can as they usually do, complete  the Time In, Time Out, Supply usage and ‘ADD’ the discipline specific type of note to access the data entry screens for documenting their visit note.

Upon Transmission of the Visit (Assessment ) to the Main Office,  the scheduled visit will be replaced by the Visit (Assessment).

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Clinical Point of Care Enhancements for Patient Signatures on Assessments

For those agencies utilizing the Patient Signature Feature in the Clinical Point of Care Software, the ability to capture patient signatures on Assessments is now available with Clinical Software version 2437 dated 5/10/16.  Assessment activities are all documents added through the Assessment option to include, OASIS assessments and Physical Therapy Assessment, Occupational Therapy and Medical Social Worker Assessments and Hospice (CA) assessment.  Upon exiting the Assessment in the Point of Care software, with the assessment record highlighted in the patient activity screen, the ‘Sign’ button can be selected.  A new window will appear.  Select the ‘Patient Sign’ button and the capture screen will display.

Agencies will also need main Office software version 5962 dated 5/10/16 for the patient signature to be included on the print format available int he main system.

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PECOS

A new PECOS file is now available for download.

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Point of Care Clinical Software Enhancements for Wound/Measurement/Dressing History and Patient ADL/IADL, Strength/ROM History for Therapy Assessments

Enhancements are available with Main Office software version 5946 dated 4/4/2016 and Clinical software version 2423 dated 4/6/2016.

Comprehensive visit assessments will provide a read only screen with historical wound assessment and dressing documentation.  The screen is available directly on the Integumentary screen just to the right of the actual data entry fields for wounds.  The skilled nurse entering the patient’s current wound assessment and dressing change will have the history available to evaluate healing and patient progress.  Clinicians wishing to view the wound history must first select the button, “Load Wound History”.  Once loaded, the clinician must select the button with the number for each active wound to see the history.

Comprehensive Physical and Occupational Therapy visit assessments will provide the therapist with a read only screen with historical Strength/ROM found in the Musculoskeletal section  and ADL/IADL documentation.  The new screen is available directly on the data entry screen for upper and lower strength/ROM and the functional assessment screen for ADL/IADL’s.  The Therapist while documenting the patient’s current strength, range of motion and performance of ADL/IADL’s will have the history of measures readily available for comparison and evaluation of patient progress and effectiveness of treatment.

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Recording DME for Hospice Patients

Hospice agencies can now record DME provided to patients with Main Office Software Version 5929 dated 03/10/16.  A new section has been added to the Hospice Notes tab that is accessible from with in the Patients database Notes section.  A new grid has been provided to allow recording of DME and Other Notes by date.

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Patient Phone Calls

Agencies can now record Patient Phone calls with Main Office Software Version 5929 dated 03/10/16.  A new Tab has been added in the Patient Notes section in the Patient database.Phone calls to patients can be recorded by date in the new grid.

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PECOS

A new PECOS file is now available for download

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A New 1094-C Employee Listing Is Now Available

Agencies now have the ability to print an Employee 1094-C listing with Main Office Software version 5918, dated 2-25-16.  Upon accessing the ‘W2/1095 Year End’ button in the payroll module, the new 1094-C Employee listing can be selected from the ‘Operation to Perform’ field.  Selecting the Print button will generate the listing.  The 1094-C Employee listing will show the number of employees for each month of the year based upon hire and inactive dates.

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