6.1.3 CHANGES/ENHANCEMENTS
09/25/2006
Note: This change list also includes Mini Release Changes Made since release of 6.1.2
Billing
All Ledgers
Error message when adding notes to adjustments in billing fixed.
NDC number on ANSI and 1450 for programs other than FP.
NDC picking up lot numbers on billing fixed.
Cash Drawer Balance
The Daily Balancing Summary program report now shows applied credit for each user instead of only the user the cash drawer report is run for.
Client Billing Ledger
Users are now alerted if a client has a miscellaneous credit on their account.
Added HD Address information on receipts for donation only payments.
Contract Billing Ledger
Open ledgers is now a column on Contract Payer Maintenance and automatically displays the number of open ledger records for each contract payer.
Medicaid Billing
California billing now allows hyphen in Receiver and Payer ID fields.
Medicare Billing – Flu/Pneumonia Diagnosis
An option has been added to the Billing Menu that allows you to set up your Influenza and Pneumococcal procedures so the system will prompt if you want to automatically use diagnosis code V06.6 on Medicare claims when both procedures are on the claim.
Private Insurance Billing Claims Processing (BL-83)
The claims processing browser now displays diagnosis codes for all claims.
Wrong PI policy number being displayed on claims fixed.
Client Register
Client Information (CR-23)
A Client Note text field has been added to CR-23 and can be used for recording notes for users when viewing Client Information screen.
When a new client was added and the user entered Client Visit Record data, the client was MOGE’d with a ?. A process was added to a 6.1.2 mini to delete? MOGE codes on client records where this occurred.
Spokane Regional Health District - Program Enrollment has additional data fields for conversion of records room data.
Client Register Listing (CR-06) Sedgwick County KS Only
Check Archive button has been added that allows users to connect the archive database and query for client records. An option has also been added to the archive database to allow the archived client record to be returned to the active PHClinic database.
Clinical Data Forms
A print button has been added to EP-40 to print a summary of clinical data form values for the selected Clinical Data Form.
A bug has been fixed where data was not saving on all pages if the user clicked the Save and
Exit buttons.
Immunization History
Format for 2 page Immunization History has been reformatted.
Encounters
Encounter Detail (EP-01)
Deactivated Contract Payers no longer show in the Contract combo on Encounter Detail screen.
Check Encounter Release Info field, and if “?” then output default on claims.
CA CVR (EP-05)
$0.00 Income is now allowed on CA Client Visit Record. Some problems reported with CA CVR data not saving on Save and Exit have been fixed.
KS CVR (EP-05)
Ethnic origin was initially an allowed field for program 01 – Family Planning clients. Previously entered data is now being stripped from the export file when it is created. Ethnic origin is now only required for all programs except for FP when client ethnicity is Hispanic.
Preferences
Print Preference
A Preference was added to not print parent/guardian name on KCI
System Preference
Re-login after idle code was reworked for users experiencing problems re-logging in.
Billing
Preference added for a message when processing PI claims if any claims have more than 4 diagnosis codes.
HCFA
***NOTE****
Print modifiers on HCFA – there was a broken link to printing modifiers on CMS 1500 and on electronic claims for Private Insurance. Double-check this HCFA Preference to make sure it is selected if you are billing Private Insurance procedures that include modifier codes (KS – FirstGuard claims).
Reporting
Patient Income Characteristics (SR-29)
The report now reports according to the most recent sliding fee scale in effect for the date range of the report when more than one sliding fee scale was active.
KS - MCH Risk Factor report (SR-133)
The report was changed to include both Admit and Enrollment dates.
Procedure Activity Report (SR-84)
The report run by procedure or procedure group totals procedure counts on the last client, it does not give counts for each client listed for each procedure. Total encounters and quantity for each client and total after each procedure.
Billing Adjustment Listing (SR-67)
There was a situation where the report showed unknown user id in user totals on this report. The report has been changed to reflect a modification to user id’s and this is no longer a problem.
Notes made on manual billing adjustments now print on the detail version of this report.
Client Write-Off Balances (SR-69)
A field size error in reporting the total on this report has been fixed.
Client Last Date of Service (SR-134)
Changed the name of the Inactive Client report to Client Last Date of Service.
IMSS/ICM Case Management Report (SR-14)
A problem where the case manager 2 field was defaulting on subsequent program enrollments reported on this report has been fixed. Both case manager fields are now being reset when this report is running.
System Maintenance
Procedure Maintenance (SM-32)
Procedures not owned by FP program can now be flagged to require NDC #’s at encounter processing.
KALHD (KS) Import Procedure Masters have been activated. Use the Actions drop-down to create/delete Import Procedures. Call the Help Desk for additional information.
Data Cleanup and Reporting/Merge Duplicate Client Records
Client ID, Address, and # Paid has been added to the Individual Client Records browser
A check was added for the # Paid column. If # Paid is > 0, the client cannot be merged into another client record.
If a client with a blank address record as the most recent address is selected to merge into, the blank address will not be included on the merged client record.
Client Name query has been added for selecting a range of clients for de-duplication by client name range.
Procedure Maintenance (SM-42)
A check-box has been added to Procedure Maintenance Admin Code – Do not include in History. When this selected for a procedure owned by IM program, the procedure will not be available in client Immunization History screens and will not print on a client Immunization History report. Use this to flag Vaccine Administration procedures 90471 and 90472 so they do not appear in Immunization History.
The KALHD Billing Project changes have been re-activated and can now be used to create Import Procedure Masters.
System Users Maintenance
System Maintenance security option has been added for Clinical Data Forms. User types for users that will be accessing Clinical Data Forms need to have this option selected.
Tables Menu, Clinical Data Forms
The ability to print Default Forms and Elements that have been created (Tools Menu Option) has been added. This gives users the ability to print all available data forms and elements to review for possible usage in the system.
Sliding Fee Scale Maintenance
Changes to the sliding fee scale listing because for some clients the scales were not displaying.
Import/Export Menu
Remote Workstation Import is duplicating history immunizations that were changed is now fixed.
Multi-antigens were not being imported from the report workstation correctly is now fixed.
E-Lab
State Lab Packages
Problem when a KDHE lab package is deleted and then re-added, there is a conflict with the sequence number.
Miscellaneous
Added a code to check TEMP directory and purge files over a month old.