Centricity® Business 4.3Begins June 22, 2009

PLACING TES CHARGE BATCH ON HOLD

Press F9 to display the bottom form action codes.

Press the “H” key to place batch on hold.

To Take Batch Off Hold press the “H” key again.

 

Message displayed when batch is placed on hold

Message displayed when batch is taken off hold

 

PLACING TES CHARGE BATCH ON HOLD (Continued)

PRINTING BATCH PROOF FROM WITHIN THE BATCH HEADER

Currently cannot print batch proof from within the actual batch

FlowCast 4.3 Saves Keystrokes FUNCTION 1000ACTIVITY 1Enter Batch NumberPress <F9>

Type “L”

Enter Device

 

Press Enter at Right Margin Prompt

Type “Y” for continuous Printing

STORING OF NDC CODES AND OTHER NDC DATA

• The System stores NDC codes and attributes in a dictionary. • It will automatically populate the filed when only one MDC code is associated with a procedure code.• When multiple NDC codes are associated with the procedure code, the system provides a dictionary

lookup to populate the fields. • The user can override the field to enter NDC codes, as well as quantity, unit of measure, and unit of price. • The system provides a means of entering up to 25 NDC codes and attributes per procedure transaction.• This feature is available in BAR, TES and Front Desk.

To access NDC billing fields press <F9> and then enter “G” for “More Actions”

TES CHAGE ENTRY SCREEN

STORING OF NDC CODES AND OTHER NDC DATA (Continued)

A second set of action codes will appear. Press “M” for more Chg Info.

Another set of action codes appears. Press “P” for Prescription

  

STORING OF NDC CODES AND OTHER NDC DATA (Continued)

At this point the following bottom form appears.

If the Procedure code is set up in the NDC dictionary with NDC information, that information will display. You can override the fields and add the Prescription number if needed.  If the Procedure Code is not set up in the NDC dictionary, the fields can be completed with the appropriate information.

DISPLAYING EDIT CONDITION DESCRIPTIONS IN THE SELECTOR BASED AUDIT TRAIL

Function 1000Activity 3

Select Encounter

ACTION CODE Y – Audit Trail

ACTION CODE Q – Display Edits (NEW CODE)

Select Edit

ACTION CODE D – Display Edit Condition

DISPLAYING EDIT CONDITION DESCRIPTIONS IN THE SELECTOR BASED AUDIT TRAIL (Continued)

SPLITTING TES ENCOUNTERS/TRANSACTIONS – NEW ACTION CODE WITHIN TES ENCOUNTER/TRANSACTION EDITING (FUNCTION 1000, ACTIVITY 2)

This enhancement streamlines the moving of transactions and counter creation with the use of a new action code Z- Split Encounter

To Split an encounter select the encounter by moving the up/down arrow until the encounter to split is highlighted. Select action code “Z Display Trans” by pressing “Z” on your keyboard.

Then select “Z-Split Encounter” by pressing “Z” again

C-Change Multiple Trans E-Edit Trans H-Reset Trans Display M-Move Trans Q-Display Edits S-Change Trans Status V-View Trans X-Delete Trans Y-Audit TrailZ-Split Encounter

This screen will appear. Select the transaction to be split by highlighting it. Enter ”Y” at the prompt on the bottom portion of the screen and press enter to split the encounter.

SPLITTING TES ENCOUNTERS/TRANSACTIONS (Continued)

SPLITTING TES ENCOUNTERS/TRANSACTIONS (Continued)

Here is the Existing Invoice with transaction that was not selected for the split

Here is the New Encounter with the transaction that was marked to be split.

The current invoice will be re-filed and a new invoice will be created.

SPLITTING TES ENCOUNTERS/TRANSACTIONS (Continued)

 

There are now two separate encounters. The original encounter that was re-filed and the new encounter showing the transaction that was split from the original encounter.

SDE ACTION CODES

 CHARGE ENTRY NEW S-SDE action to display the SDE-related Actions

All the SDE-related action codes were moved from T- More Actions to a new S-SDEs action code

CHARGE ENTRY (Continued) NEW S-SDE action to display the SDE-related Actions

T – More ActionsAccesses E-Enable Entries and Q Claim Queue.

 

USING THE NEW TES ENCOUNTER/TRANSACTION AUDIT TRAIL

Function 1000Activity 3Action Code Y-Audit Trail

Highlight encounter and select Y Audit Trail

Encounter Audit Trail Screen Displays Date Updated and The User Name

Action code V – Field Values allows users to view a snapshot of any entry in the audit trail.

 

USING THE NEW TES ENCOUNTER/TRANSACTION AUDIT TRAIL (Continued)

 

USING THE NEW TES ENCOUNTER/TRANSACTION AUDIT TRAIL (Continued)

Displays Field Name and Value

FORCING THE FILING OF EDIT CONDITIONS IN TES

Previously unless you filed a TES transaction with the edit, it didn’t hit the audit trail. In Flowcast 4.3 even if the user fixes the edit before filing the transaction it will hit the audit trail

DISPLAYING # OF ENCOUNTERS ASSOCIATED WITH A WORKFILE

You can now access and view the audit trail for batch control changes to a selected batch from Batch Maintenance. The audit trail will show changes to the batch control fields and the user who made the changes. Function 3, Activity 20 Action Code M – Batch MaintenanceAction Code A – Audit Trail

AUDITING CHANGES TO BATCH CONTROL TOTALS

FILTERING BAR INVOICES USING THE Q-?= Filter Action Code

 

Added These Options ?F allows the use of FSC mnemonics

Added These Options ?DX=, ?DXP, ? DXT=, and ?DXPT

SUPPRESSING DISPLAY OF REVERSAL INVOICES

Action Code G – Reversal Invoices (Invoice Inquiry Screen) This is action code allows you to toggle the display of reversal invoices.

Press “G” to hide/show Reversal Invoices

Reversal Invoices Hidden

VIEWING STATEMENT EDITS IN INVOICE INQUIRY

You can now view the statement edits associated with a patient account in Invoice Inquiry in BAR through Action code “T-More Actions, Action Code “H-Statement History” and Action code “E”

Press T for More Actions

Press H for Statement History

VIEWING STATEMENT EDITS IN INVOICE INQUIRY (Continued)

Press E for Statement Edits

SPECIFYING INDIVIDUAL CHARGE LINES FOR CLAIM FORM RUN

This release allows you to specify which charge line(s) to contain on the claim submitted on the next claim run, reducing the number of invoice splits. The feature works with both electronic and paper claim runs.

In Inquiry select the invoice and then select action code D-View Detail

SPECIFYING INDIVIDUAL CHARGE LINES FOR CLAIM FORM RUN (Continued)

Select Action Code L-Claim Info…

SPECIFYING INDIVIDUAL CHARGE LINES FOR CLAIM FORM RUN (Continued)

Select second or third line (transaction)

Select action code Q-Queue

Chg Lines

SPECIFYING INDIVIDUAL CHARGE LINES FOR CLAIM FORM RUN (Continued)

The Charge(s) will be added to the claim queue

ERROR MESSAGE ENHANCED WHEN DELETING A FSC FROM THE INSURANCE TABLE