Comprehensive Assessment/Visit Assessment Printout change

Posted on April 9, 2010 by melissa

Available on Version 4538, when you print a Comprehensive Assessment or a Visit Assessment (Note) if you have ‘No Wounds’ with a check mark in it (In the Integumentary Status Locator section) and have also typed a narrative in the Integumentary Status Locator notes section, the note will now print.

Previously if ‘No Wounds’ had a checkmark in it we were not printing that section at all, so if the clinician typed in a note in the narrative section it would not print.

This update for the Clinical HHC3000 laptop side printing capabilities (i.e.: if you are printing from the laptop instead of the office side software) has not yet gone out on an update.

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New option on the Employee Work Schedule Calendar

Posted on April 9, 2010 by melissa

Available on version 4538 there is now an option on the Employee Work Schedule Calendar to just print Patient Names (no service or insurance).

This option was added at the request of one of our agencies who wanted to print a calendar with just patient names and no other information for each of the scheduled visits.

We have also added the patient’s phone number to the detailed patient information that prints on the bottom of the calendar page.

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PPS Rural Adjustment – 4/1/10

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Support

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 a CBSA code beginning with ‘999’.  This rural adjustment applies to episodes ending 4/1/2010 through 12/31/2016.  You can see the 3% rural adjustment on the second page of the OASIS / PPS Summary Sheet just above the total PPS $ amounts.  There will be no automatic adjustments of PPS episodes already billed and posted into accounts receivable.  You will probably record the additional income when the final payment is received.  Any new PPS episodes posted to accounts receivable in the future will include the rural add-on if appropriate.

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New Clinical Laptop Update Version 720

Posted on April 6, 2010 by melissa

Please have your laptop users use the fourth option down in the HHC 3000 Clinical Data Transfer Update Utility to update their Clinical software to version 720.

Version 720 includes a new button in the Assessments and Visits screen (accessible from within an individual patient) that give you the ability to transfer an assessment or a visit from one patient to another in case the record is accidentally keyed under the wrong patient.

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Good Friday, April 2, 2010 – Allegheny Software will be closed.

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Support

We will be closed on Good Friday, April 2, 2010.  The office will reopen Monday, April 5th at 9:00 am.  Have a good Easter holiday.

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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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Employee Listing – User Defined

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Support

We added the employee’s gender as an option to the Employee Listing – User Defined report.

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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 claims with these codes.  As of March 24, 2010 the codes will be deleted from the options in HHC3000.

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Hospice Length of Stay Report

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Support

We added a new checkoff labeled “Show active days for range of service instead of length of stay” to the Hospice Length of Stay Report.  If checked, and you are running the report for a range of dates, the report will calculate the number of days that the patient received Hospice within the range of dates selected for the report.  If not checked, the length of stay from the date the patient went on Hospice shows.

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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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