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expEDIum Medical Billing
v5.1
Release Notes Release Date | May 16, 2020
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Table of Contents
1) [Ticket # 10973] MDR: Collection Report | Enhanced Default Report, New Report - By Service Line .............................................3
2) [Ticket # 10974] PH: Patient Payment Agreements ............................................................................................................................6
3) [Ticket # 11026] MDR: Patient Demographics Enhancement | Patient Alternate Address and Employment Status .................. 14
4) [Ticket # 11182] iTech: Admin Module | Process - Manual Trigger | UI Improvements ................................................................ 17
5) [Ticket # 11237] MDR: Account Feature Settings - Populate default claim fields in New Claim Form (Prof/Inst) ........................ 17
6) [Ticket # 11240] PH: AR Summary Report – Enhancemnt - Monthly, Half-Yearly, Yearly options .................................................. 19
7) [Ticket # 11248] MDR: Manage Reporting Procedure Codes + Show/Hide Option in Patient Statements ................................... 21
8) [Ticket # 11354] PH: Transunion Secure FTP Connection issue | Transmission Library Upgrade and Module Changes ............ 25
9) [Ticket # 11430] PH: Ledger: Generate Receipt fails to print due to carriage return/line feed in transaction notes ................... 25
10) [Ticket # 11466] MDR2: New Claim (Prof/Inst) - Pre-configure practice, provider and facility details ..................................... 25
11) [Ticket # 11476] MDR: UB04 Claims - Medical Record Number not getting saved .................................................................. 31
12) [Ticket #11539] PH: Patient Eligibility History Window | Show more information/New Columns ............................................ 31
13) [Ticket # 11541] PH: Posting - Ability to see more claims in the batch, Enhanced Search Claim Filters/Sort Options ........... 31
14) [Ticket #11542] MDR + iTech Internal: Appointment Report Enhancements ........................................................................... 33
15) [Ticket #11548] PH: Enhancement - DOS column on Claim Screen under Posting Batch ........................................................ 34
16) [Ticket #11549] PH: Enhancement | New Filter “Under Aged” in Aging Reports ...................................................................... 34
17) [Ticket #11572] MDR: Batch Error - Claims Created through ESB giving error while posting ................................................... 36
18) [Ticket #11585] PH: Enhancement - Age Group Filter in Revenue Board Report ...................................................................... 37
19) [Ticket # 11629] MDR: Anesthesia claims support in ESB ......................................................................................................... 38
20) [Ticket #11630] MDR: ESB Enhancment - Sync Hospitalization Date with the Date of Service ............................................... 39
21) [Ticket #11631] MDR: Clear option to clear payer information in patient demographics ......................................................... 40
22) [Ticket #11634] iTech: External Pay - Change in logic to call Rest API when locally hosted .................................................... 41
23) [Ticket #11649] PH: Posting Batch Enhancement – Allow longer batch name (60 char) and enhance batch notes filter ..... 41
24) [Ticket #11652] PH: Close Button and Corner Close Icon are not appearing on Eligibility History Window when opened from
claim screen .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 42
25) [Ticket #11665] iTech: Disable Transaction Amount | Multi-Claim Online Payment - By Claims, By SFS Program ................. 43
26) [Ticket #11682] iTech | Quick sanity testing the Manager module required ............................................................................ 44
27) [Ticket #11686] iTech: Edit Ledger Transaction Window - SFS Program should not be editable ............................................. 44
28) [Ticket #11714] PH: Revenue Board Report | Self Pay Claims - Patient Payment Amount is shown in Insurance Payment
Amount wrongly ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 45
29) [Ticket #11715] PH: Medicaid Claims by RA Date report - Shows inaccurate claim count and check amount ....................... 46
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expEDIum Medical Billing v5.1 Release Notes
This release note describes tickets that are either enhancements or new features or bug fixes.
Some tickets may refer to other tickets from previous releases. These tickets are combination of
change requests from any of our partners and that are internally identified at iTech. A summary of
tickets is provided in the last page of this release note. On request, we can provide any specific
release note for any earlier release. This release note is also available from our website at
http://www.itechws.com/releasenote for the last few releases.
1) [Ticket # 10973] MDR: Collection Report | Enhanced Default Report, New
Report - By Service Line
One of the clients requested us for a feature enhancement in the “Collection Report” – to have a
new type of collection report with the “Service line” details. Hence, a new filter Report Type is
introduced in the collection report screen. This drop-down filter will have two options Default and
By Service Line.
Default – This is the default collection report with the existing filters.
By Service Line – This is the collection report with the service line details. When this option is
chosen in the drop down, a new check box “Exclude Services with Zero Charges” will appear on
screen and is enabled by default.
The collection report will have two options “Create Report” and “View Report”.
Create Report - When the report type is chosen as “By Service Line”, a confirmation message will
be shown on screen with a create and cancel option.
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On clicking create, a pop-up window will appear on screen to view the service line collection report
from the View Report option.
A new button View Report is introduced in the collection report screen. The user can view the
created Default and by service Line collection reports from the View Report option. New tabs
Default and By Service Line is introduced in the “View Report” option with Archive and Delete
options.
Previously, the collection report was viewed from the view report option under Reports >> View
menu. In this version, the Default and Service Line collection report will be created under View
Report screen in Collection Reports module itself.
The earlier default collection reports created by users will be available from the drop box under
Reports >> View.
Go to “Service Line” tab to view the Service line-based collection reports. These are saved in HTML
format in the drop box. Click the View icon in the report row to open the report. Below shows the
sample “Collection Report by Service Line”.
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This report can be exported to PDF/Excel using the Export icon provided at the top right corner of
the report.
To archive the reports and move to archive section, please select one or more reports using the
check boxes provided, and click on Archive button.
The reports can be still viewed by clicking on View button, and exported to PDF/Excel. Select one
or more reports and click on Delete button to permanently delete the reports.
The newly created Default Collection Reports will be dropped in this new drop box. The format will
be the same CSV format always as before. These reports can be by clicking on the “Default” tab.
Click on download icon near each report to download the CSV file.
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To archive the reports and move to archive section, please select one or more reports using the
check boxes provided, and click on Archive button.
The default collection reports in CSV format can be still downloaded by clicking on Download
button, select one or more reports and click on Delete button to permanently delete the reports.
2) [Ticket # 10974] PH: Patient Payment Agreements
As per the client request a new feature called “Patient Payment Agreements” (PPA) is introduced
in eMB. It is a simple agreement where the patient agrees to pay certain amount over a period
until he/she completely pays of the balance due. Here both the clinic and patient agree upon and
signs an agreement.
This feature is available on demand for specific clinics where the PPA feature is enabled in the
feature settings from the admin module. The system supports configurable template-based
patient payment agreement form that can be customized for each clinic.
Once the feature is made available for clinics, the users can:
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1) Create Patient Payment Agreements.
2) View/Edit Agreement details.
3) Print Agreement.
By default, PPA will be disabled for all the accounts. On demand, administrator can enable PPA
when a request is received from a practice account. The PPA feature can be enabled only from
Admin module as shown below.
The PPA feature access is available to the operators/users under a practice account based on the
privileges configured by the administrator under user role settings or custom operator privilege
settings.
View Only - If checked, then user will not be able to create new patient payment agreement, edit
and manage it.
Manage - If checked, the user will be able to add, edit and manage patient payment agreements.
In this case, View Only option is not applicable - it will be unchecked and disabled.
The Practice Administrator Users will have the user role pre-configured to have PPA-Manage
enabled and will be applicable when the clinic has PPA feature enabled.
Templates Configuration
This option is available from the Upload Template option provided for each practice account in the
account list screen in administrator login.
1) The administrator can upload one or more templates and assign one or more templates
to a practice account.
2) The administrator can name the templates, enable/disable templates, select and assign
the templates to be used, and set a default template.
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3) The administrator can delete the templates which are not used/inactive.
4) The template set as default, will appear in template drop down as the chosen template by
default in the view patient payment agreement screen on the practice module.
Ledger Transaction Types
In the user login, a new check box is introduced “Allow PPA” in the add/edit custom transaction
type screen. This is available under Maintenance >> Ledger Transaction Types >> Add/Edit
custom transaction types. The Allow PPA check box will appear only if the Transaction Type is
Accountable and the Amount Type is Payment. The user can enable “Allow PPA” option by selecting
the check box and save the settings. When this option is enabled, the transaction type can be
used to make patient payment agreement-based instalment transactions.
Patient View List and Patient Ledger
When the practice account is enabled with the allow PPA option, a new icon for PPA will appear in
the Patient List screen and Patient Ledger screen to manage PPA.
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Patient List Screen
The PPA management option is provided here for the clinics who manage patient demographics
from eMB itself
Patient Ledger Screen
The PPA management option is provided on patient ledger screen if the system is integrated with
EMR and the clinics manage patient demographics from EMR itself. For such installations, the
patient list screen will not be accessible to users, and hence they manage it from the option
provided in patient ledger screen,
When the user clicks on PPA icon/link, a context menu will appear on screen to add new/manage
patient payment agreements.
The context menu will have two options:
1) Create new PPA – for users with Manage privilege only.
2) List PPA – for both View and Manage privilege.
List PPA
When the user clicks on List PPA, a new window will appear on screen with the list of PPA’s created.
This window will display Status of PPA, PPA ID, Agreement Amount, Interval (weekly, monthly,
quarterly, half yearly, yearly), Instalment Amount, No of Instalment, Agreement Start Date,
Agreement End Date, Created Date and Created By.
The right end column of the window displays the menu context for each PPA. For the Manage
operator privilege the menu context for each PPA will be as follows:
1) View Agreement
2) View/Edit Agreement Details
3) View Transactions
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For the view only operator privilege the menu context for each PPA will be as follows:
1) View Agreement
2) View Agreement Details
3) View Transactions
Create new PPA
The users can create PPA from Patient Ledger screen and the Patient View List screen. This PPA
icon will appear for practice accounts only if PPA feature is enabled for the account and individual
operators/user under that practice account can access the PPA features based on the privileges
granted to them.
When the user clicks on Create a new PPA, it allows the user to create a new Agreement for each
patient.
The create PPA screen will have certain fields that are auto populated, and some fields must be
filled in by the user.
Agreement Details
1) Agreement ID: The Agreement ID will be generated by system.
2) Agreement Name: The user must enter the Name of agreement (Mandatory field).
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3) Agreement Date: This is the date when the agreement is created. The system will always
consider the current date, and hence it is not editable.
Instalment Amount Details
1) Agreement Amount: User must enter the agreement amount, and amount should be
greater than 0.00 (Mandatory field).
2) No. of Instalments: User must enter the number of instalments, and value should be
greater than 0 (Mandatory field).
3) Instalment Amount: Instalment amount will be auto calculated based on agreement
amount and no. of instalments.
4) Start Date: This is the official start date of the payment agreement based on which the
other details of the agreement are arrived at. To be specified by user
5) Interval: The user can choose the interval, based on patient choice who will pay after
certain interval. Currently system supports only five intervals i.e. weekly, monthly,
quarterly, half yearly and yearly (Mandatory field).
6) End Date: It is a system calculated end date of PPA based on No. of Instalments, start date
and interval provided by the user.
Patient Details
1) First Name: Auto populated Patient First Name.
2) Last Name: Auto populated Patient Last Name.
3) PAN: Auto populated PAN.
4) Current Balance Due: This is the patient's current balance due when the agreement is
created. This is for informational purpose and will not change based on the subsequent
transactions in patient ledger.
Insured/Guarantor Details
1) First Name: Auto populated - Patient’s Primary Insured First Name.
2) Last Name: Auto populated - Patient’s Primary Insured Last Name.
Practice Details
1) Name: The user can choose the practice name from the drop down and other fields
(Address, city, state, zip and NPI) will be auto populated based on practice name the user
has selected and this is a mandatory field. This is given as a dropdown as there are chances
that the account will have multiple Practices/Billing Offices configured.
2) Notes: Here user can write a note for the PPA and it is not a mandatory field.
Toggle button - On top right of the screen there is a toggle button to enable/disable PPA. By default,
it will be always enabled.
View Agreement:
The View Agreement screen displays the actual patient payment agreement in the format based
on the template chosen.
The left top corner of the screen displays the "choose template" dropdown where the user can
choose any pre-configured PPA templates and click on Print PPA button to open the agreement in
Print Preview screen. The user can print the agreement directly or Export to PDF from the options
provided in Print Preview Screen.
If the template is not configured, then an alert message will be displayed on the screen.
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View/Edit Agreement Details:
The user can view the agreement details from this screen. The user can edit the agreement details
if no transaction is made yet under that PPA.
But the PPA can be enabled/disabled using the anytime toggle button provided if there are
transactions made under it. However, the user will not be able to edit the greyed-out fields such as
Agreement Date, Instalment Amount and End Date.
View Transactions:
This screen will display the list of ledger transactions and the instalment amounts made under a
PPA. It acts as a PPA tracker which also displays PPA details, PPA Status, Total Agreement Amount
and Outstanding Balance.
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There are 3 Statuses for a PPA:
1) Created: When a PPA is created, the status will be in created status. The status is
displayed as a yellow icon.
2) In Progress: When a transaction is made for a PPA and Outstanding Balance is greater
than 0.00 then status will change to In Progress mode. The status is displayed as a green icon.
3) Complete: If the Outstanding Balance is less than or equal to 0.00 then status will be
changed to Completed. The status is displayed as an orange icon.
From the List PPA screen, only the PPAs that are in status “Created” can be deleted, that too only
one at a time.
Patient Ledger
Currently, we are supporting PPA only in the patient level ledger transaction screen. The user can
add PPA transaction from patient ledger by choosing the transaction types marked as Allow PPA.
A PPA drop down field will appear on Add Transaction screen when “Allow PPA” is enabled for the
transaction type. The PPAs which are completed and/or disabled will not be listed in this dropdown.
The user can select the appropriate PPA name with ID from the drop down when the payment
transaction is made from the screen,
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Note: When the PPA is selected from the dropdown an alert will be shown on the screen that a PPA
is selected.
Once the transaction is made after choosing PPA, the user will not be allowed to change the
selected PPA from the Edit Transaction screen.
3) [Ticket # 11026] MDR: Patient Demographics Enhancement | Patient
Alternate Address and Employment Status
There was a request for a feature enhancement in the Patient Demographics window. The clinic
requested us to add Patient Alternate Address details and new options in the Employment Status
drop down.
In Employment Status, three new options are introduced -
1) Part-Time Employed
2) Self-Employed
3) Retired
Note: The option “Employed” status is now renamed as “Full-Time Employed” in the dropdown.
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A new toggle button is introduced in the Address section of the Patient Demographics screen to
switch between main address and alternate address. By default, the “Main” address of the patient
will be shown on screen. The user can switch the toggle button for alternate address and the
alternate address details will be shown on screen.
The new address fields introduced in the alternate address tab are-
1) Alternate Address1
2) Alternate Address2
3) Alternate City
4) Alternate State
5) Alternate Zip
The employment status and Alternate address details are supported in the following modules.
1) Inbound Patient XML - eCPPatientDMGListener (Soap Webservice)
2) Patient Add/Edit (UI)
3) Patient Import (csv/xml)
4) Patient Export (csv/xml)
5) Import/Export CSV Map Configuration (from Admin)
6) Outbound Patient XML
7) Patient Lookup (only employment status changes)
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8) Patient Refresh (only employment status changes)
9) ESB (only employment status changes)
10) Enrich Thin Claims (only employment status changes)
11) Persist DMG (only employment status changes)
The XML payload changes are:
NEW VARIABLES
<xs:element ref="patientAlternateAddress1" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
<xs:element ref="patientAlternateAddress2" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
<xs:element ref="patientAlternateCity" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
<xs:element ref="patientAlternateState" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
<xs:element ref="patientAlternateZip" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
<xs:element name="patientAlternateAddress1" type="xs:string" />
<xs:element name="patientAlternateAddress2" type="xs:string" />
<xs:element name="patientAlternateCity" type="xs:string" />
<xs:element name="patientAlternateState" type="xs:string" />
<xs:element name="patientAlternateZip" type="xs:string" />
EXISTING VARIABLE – ADDITIONAL OPTIONS ADDED AS ALLOWED VALUES
<xs:element ref="patientEmploymentStatus" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
<xs:element name="patientEmploymentStatus">
<xs:simpleType>
<xs:restriction base="xs:string">
<xs:enumeration value="E" /> <!-- EMPLOYED/FULL-TIME EMPLOYED -->
<xs:enumeration value="PE" /> <!-- PART-TIME EMPLOYED -->
<xs:enumeration value="SE" /> <!-- SELF EMPLOYED -->
<xs:enumeration value="RE" /> <!-- RETIRED -->
<xs:enumeration value="F" /> <!-- FULL-TIME STUDENT -->
<xs:enumeration value="P" /> <!-- PART-TIME STUDENT -->
<xs:enumeration value="" /> <!-- NOT AVAILABLE -->
</xs:restriction>
</xs:simpleType>
</xs:element>
The Patient Payload XML Schema for both inbound and outbound will be provided on demand.
The schema changes are backward compatible, and the patient payload used in the previous
version will continue to work with the new schema file.
There are no corresponding changes in the claim schema file or claim payload/fields. The newly
added options in the patient employment status will be now mapped like this.
Patient Employment
Status (DMG
Employment
Dropdown
(Claim)
Student
Dropdown
(Claim)
Employed (E) Yes Select/Empty Existing Map
Full Time Student (F) No Full Time Existing Map
Part Time Student
(P)
Yes Part Time Existing Map
Self Employed (SE) Yes Select/Empty New Map
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Part Time Employed
(P)
Yes Part Time New Map
Retired (RE) No Select/Empty New Map
4) [Ticket # 11182] iTech: Admin Module | Process - Manual Trigger | UI
Improvements
Previously, in v4.9 release a trigger button “Account cache for claim validation” was introduced in
the admin module to manually trigger the caching. Due to the addition of more triggers and the
process trigger screen got crowded and was confusing to the portal administrators. Hence, we
have changed the UI of the Automatic Processes screen by introducing new icons for better
presentation and ease of use.
This is available under Admin>>Process>>Automated>>Trigger.
5) [Ticket # 11237] MDR: Account Feature Settings - Populate default claim
fields in New Claim Form (Prof/Inst)
There was a request for a new feature enhancement in the UB04 claim form. The clinic asked us
to default few of the commonly used fields in professional and institutional from new primary claim
screen. both Practice and Admin module. These fields can be configured under Maintenance >>
Feature Settings >> Claim >> Institutional from both practice login and admin login. The clinic can
default the values as per their choice, so that while they create a new primary UB04 claim the
chosen default values will be auto populated from the feature settings.
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The “Default UB Facility Type” and “Default UB Service Lines Count” are existing settings.
Additionally, we have introduced,
1) Default UB Insurance Program
2) Default UB Admission Type
3) Default UB Admission Source and
4) Default UB Patient Status Code
in the Institutional feature settings screen.
The default values chosen in the settings screen will appear in the New Primary Institutional claim
form. When the claims are cloned to new primary claim screen, the following default values will
be populated in the new claim screen, but will be over written by the values in the source claim.
By default, the UB Frequency Code will be "2” and the UB service Lines Count will be “10”in feature
settings drop down. The Type of Bill will be shown as a read only value which is a combination of
“0 + UB Facility Type + UB Frequency Code” in the settings.
As we introduced “Default UB Insurance Program” in New Primary UB Claim Default, a new
configuration Default HCFA Insurance Program is introduced in the feature settings for
Professional claims in both Practice and Admin module. This configuration is available under
Maintenance >> Feature Settings >> Claim >>Professional.
The feature settings for claim is now categorized into General, Professional and Institutional for
both PHD and Non-PHD accounts.
General – The existing feature setting configurations “Show Clone Option” and “Default Sort
Order” which are common for professional and institutional claim are available under this option.
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6) [Ticket # 11240] PH: AR Summary Report – Enhancement - Monthly, Half-
Yearly, Yearly options
One of the clients requested us for a new feature enhancement in the AR Aging report. The clinic
wants us to add new type of period in the date filters for a given year. In this version, we have
introduced new Type of filters such as Monthly, Half Yearly and Yearly in the AR Aging report for
report type - Default (For Public Health and Non-Public Health) and By Program List (for Public
Health only). Previously, our system was designed to support the date range filter only on quarterly
basis. From this version, the report is enhanced to have above mentioned date range filters.
1) Fiscal year - The filter name “year” is changed to Fiscal Year. This will have the current Fiscal
year selected by default. The default is based on the default fiscal year start month configured
in the account feature settings. The user can choose the appropriate fiscal year from the drop
down.
2) Type – This filter will have four drop-down option namely Monthly, Quarterly, Half-Yearly and
Yearly. By default, Quarterly will be selected.
In the sub drop down, the user must select appropriate quarter, month, half year or year. Based
on the type of period selected, all twelve months, all four quarters, both half years and year will
be shown. By default, current month, quarter, half year or year will be selected.
Monthly
Below shows the monthly Default AR Aging Report.
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Half Yearly
Below shows the Half yearly Default AR Aging Report.
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Yearly
7) [Ticket # 11248] MDR: Manage Reporting Procedure Codes + Show/Hide
Option in Patient Statements
One of the clients requested us to have a new feature enhancement in the Patient Statement
settings screen. They wanted to exclude Reporting Procedure Codes while printing patient
statements to save paper while printing. Hence, we have introduced a new screen to manage the
Reporting Code List in the practice module under maintenance tab for both PHD and Non PHD
accounts. This is available under Maintenance >> Reporting Code List > List. This screen will
display the Reporting Code, Description, Created Date and Updated Date.
Admin Module
The Reporting Code List access is available to the operators/users under a practice account based
on the privileges configured by the administrator under user role settings or custom operator
privilege settings. This is available under Admin >> Maintenance >> User Roles >> Add new User
Role/Edit User Role >> Reporting Code List.
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View Only - If checked, then user will not be able to add, edit and delete the Reporting Code List.
When view only option is enabled, the add, edit and delete will be disabled.
Add- If checked, then user will be able to add a new Reporting Code to the List.
Edit - If checked, then user will be able to edit/update the existing Reporting Code to the List.
Delete - If checked, then user will be able to delete the selected Reporting Code from the List.
Practice Module
The users can search the reporting code using filters such as Code, Description and Sort by. The
Code and Description filter has a text field with sub filter options such as Equals, start with, End
with and contains. The Sort filter will sort the code list based on the Created Date or Procedure
Code in Descending or Ascending order.
The user can Add, Edit and Delete a Reporting code based on the privileges set by admin for each
practice account.
1) Add New- The user can add new Report Procedure code to the list by entering the code
and short description from the Add new option and save them. The system will display a
confirmation message on screen after duplicate check.
2) Edit Report Procedure Code - The user can edit the Report Procedure code by updating
the code and description from the Edit option and save them. The Edit Report Procedure
code screen will display the Created by, Created Date, Last updated by and Last Updated
Date. The system will display a confirmation message for updating the report procedure
code to the list “Are you sure you want to update?”, On clicking yes, a confirmation
message will be displayed on screen after the duplicate check is passed.
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3) Delete – The user can select delete report procedure code by selecting them from the list.
The system will display a confirmation message to delete the selected code from the list
“Are you sure you want to delete the selected code(s)?”, On clicking Ok, a confirmation
message will be displayed on screen.
The user can print the Reporting Code List from the Print option and export it to PDF.
Patient Statement Settings
A new flag “Exclude services with reporting codes” is introduced in the Patient statement settings
screen for single and bulk patient statements.
The “Exclude services with reporting codes” flag is based on the following criteria:
1.) The “Exclude services with reporting codes” flag will appear only if “Show Service Lines” flag is
checked.
2.) By default, the “Exclude services with reporting codes” flag will be unchecked and will not
exclude any reporting procedure codes in the patient statement.
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3.) When a user checks the "Exclude services with reporting codes" flag, it will exclude all the
reporting procedure codes that are available in Reporting Code List screen when service line
details are printed on patient statement.
4.) The “Exclude services with reporting codes” flag will be hidden like the Show Procedure Code
and Show Procedure Code Description code check box when the Show Service Lines” flag is
unchecked.
Single Patient Statement
A new flag "Exclude services with reporting codes" is introduced in the create single patient
statement screen. By default, it will be unchecked and appear only if Show Service Lines flag is
checked.
This configuration saved in patient statement settings can be overridden on the fly from the above
screen before creating the statement.
Create Bulk Patient Statement
A new flag "Exclude services with reporting codes" is introduced in the create bulk patient
statement screen. By default, it will be unchecked and appear only if Show Service Lines flag is
checked.
This configuration saved in patient statement settings can be overridden on the fly from the above
screen before creating the statement.
Manage Patient Statement
The flag "Exclude services with reporting codes" is displayed with value (Yes/No) in the Additional
Information screen based on the criteria chosen for Task View, File View and Patient View.
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8) [Ticket # 11354] PH: Transunion Secure FTP Connection issue |
Transmission Library Upgrade and Module Changes
One of the clients had reported an issue with the eligibility batch inquiries are not responded by
the payer. It was noticed that while sending bundled IEV batches (270 files), the system was
unable to upload files using Secure FTP automatically to TransUnion and hence the inquiries did
not reach the payer to respond. There was a connection issue between eMB and the Secure FTP
server due to an outdated SFTP File Transfer library we use. The library is now updated with the
latest version and the SFTP Connection logic is changed as per the new library API to fix this issue.
Please this is happening only while connecting to Transunion and not any other clearinghouses.
Note: The 270 batches which failed to upload are currently shipped to Transunion manually by
iTech support team
9) [Ticket # 11430] PH: Ledger: Generate Receipt fails to print due to
carriage return/line feed in transaction notes
One of the clinics were unable to generate a ledger transaction receipt due to line breaks in the
transaction notes. When the user was trying to generate receipt for patients having transaction
notes with carriage return/line feed characters, the Generate Receipt module failed to print the
Ledger Transaction Receipt. This issue is fixed.
Also, the user can generate receipt having transaction notes with carriage return/line feeds from
patient ledger and print them from the following ledger screens - patient level and claim level
(Single/multiple), Debt Set Off, Posting >> Manage and Posting screen - Semi-Auto SFS
adjustment transaction, Ledger opened using Web API.
10) [Ticket # 11466] MDR2: New Claim (Prof/Inst) - Pre-configure practice,
provider, and facility details
There was a request for a new feature enhancement in the New Primary Professional and New
Primary Institutional Claim forms. The clinic asked us to default the Billing Provider, Service
Facility, Rendering Provider and Serviced By fields for New Primary Professional claims. And also,
the Billing Provider, Service Facility, Rendering Provider, Serviced By, Attending Provider and
Operating Provider for New Primary Institutional claims.
The configuration of these fields is added in the feature settings for Professional and Institutional
claims. This can be configured from both Practice and Admin module in both PHD and Non PHD
accounts and is available under Maintenance >> Feature Settings >> Claim >>
Professional/Institutional. The clinic can default the values as per their choice, so while creating
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a new primary HCFA 1500/UB04 claim the chosen default values will be auto populated from the
feature settings.
1) Professional – This feature setting is for Professional claim forms. The “Default HCFA Service
Lines Count” is an existing feature. In this requirement, we have introduced Billing Provider,
Service Facility, Rendering Provider and Serviced By fields to the Professional claim feature
settings screen. The clinic can select the option for the above fields and save the settings. The
default values chosen will be auto populated in the new Primary Professional claim form.
a) Billing Provider - The Billing Provider will have a “look up” drop down with fields such as “Name,
Address1, Address2, City, State, Zip, NPI, Tax ID and Taxonomy Code”.
The user can configure the default practice/billing provider details to be populated in the billing
provider section of the claim when a new primary professional claim form is opened from the
menu. At least “Name, Tax ID, and NPI” must be configured to successfully save the default
configuration. If Tax ID Type is not configured, EIN will be assumed and saved. The user can leave
it empty if he/she do not want to save as default. If billing provider is not configured here, the new
claim screen will populate the primary practice/billing provider details in the billing provider
section (existing behavior retained for backward compatibility).
b) Service Facility – The Service Facility will have a “look up” drop down with fields such as “Name,
Address1, Address2, City, State, Zip and NPI”.
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The user can configure the default service facility details to be populated in the service facility
section of the claim when a new primary professional claim form is opened from the menu. At
least the “Name” must be configured to successfully save the default configuration. The user can
leave it empty if he/she do not want to save a default.
c) Rendering Provider - The Rendering Provider will have a “lookup” drop down with fields such as
“First Name, Middle Name, Last Name, NPI and Taxonomy Code”.
The user can configure the default rendering provider details to be populated in the rendering
provider section of the claim when a new primary professional claim form is opened from the
menu. At least “First Name, Last Name and NPI” must be configured to successfully save the
default configuration. The user can leave it empty if he/she do not want to save a default.
d) Serviced By – The Service By will have a “lookup” drop down with fields such as “First Name,
Middle Name, Last Name and NPI”.
The user can configure the default serviced by provider details to be populated in the serviced by
provider section of the claim when a new primary professional claim form is opened from the
menu. At least “First Name and Last Name” must be configured to successfully save the default
configuration. The user can leave it empty if he/she do not want to save a default.
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2) Institutional - This feature setting is for Institutional claim forms. The “Default UB Service Lines
Count” is an existing feature. In this version, we have introduced Billing Provider, Service
Facility, Rendering Provider, Serviced By, Attending Provider and Operating Provider fields to
the Institutional claim feature settings screen. The clinic can select the option for the above
fields and save the settings. The default values chosen will be auto populated in the new
Primary Institutional claim form.
a) Billing Provider - The Billing Provider will have a “look up” drop down with fields such as “Name,
Address1, Address2, City, State, Zip, NPI, Tax ID and Taxonomy Code”.
The user can configure the default practice/billing provider details to be populated in the billing
provider section of the claim when a new primary institutional claim form is opened from the
menu. At least “Name, Tax ID, and NPI” must be configured to successfully save the default
configuration. If Tax ID Type is not configured, EIN will be assumed and saved. The user can leave
it empty if he/she do not want to save as default. If billing provider is not configured here, the new
claim screen will populate the primary practice/billing provider details in the billing provider
section (existing behavior retained for backward compatibility).
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b) Service Facility – The Service Facility will have a “look up” drop down with fields such as “Name,
Address1, Address2, City, State, Zip and NPI”.
The user can configure the default service facility details to be populated in the service facility
section of the claim when a new primary institutional claim form is opened from the menu. At least
the “Name” must be configured to successfully save the default configuration. The user can leave
it empty if he/she do not want to save as default.
c) Rendering Provider – The Rendering Provider will have a “look up” drop down with fields such
as “First Name, Middle Name, Last Name, NPI and Taxonomy Code”.
The user can configure the default rendering provider details to be populated in the rendering
provider section of the claim when a new primary institutional claim form is opened from the
menu. At least First Name, Last Name and NPI must be configured to successfully save the default
configuration. The user can leave it empty if he/she do not want to save as default.
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d) Serviced By – The Serviced By will have a “lookup” drop down with fields such as “First Name,
Middle Name, Last Name and NPI”.
The user can configure the default serviced by provider details to be populated in the serviced by
provider section of the claim when a new primary institutional claim form is opened from the
menu. At least “First Name and Last Name” must be configured to successfully save the default
configuration. The user can leave it empty if he/she do not want to save as default.
e) Attending Provider – The Attending Provider will have a “lookup” drop down with fields such as
“Name, Address1, Address2, City, State, Zip, NPI and Taxonomy Code”.
The user can configure the default attending provider details to be populated in the attending
provider section of the claim when a new primary institutional claim form is opened from the
menu. At least “First Name, Last Name and NPI” must be configured to successfully save the
default configuration. The user can leave it empty if he/she do not want to save as default.
f) Operating Provider – The Operating Provider will have a “lookup” drop down with fields such as
“First Name, Middle Name, Last Name and NPI”.
The user can configure the default operating provider details to be populated in the operating
provider section of the claim when a new primary institutional claim form is opened from the
menu. At least “First Name, Last Name and NPI” must be configured to successfully save the
default configuration. The user can leave it empty if he/she do not want to save as default.
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Note: When a claim is cloned and opened in new claim screen, the default saved feature settings
will be pre-populated in the new claim, but will be overwritten by the information in the source
claim.
11) [Ticket # 11476] MDR: UB04 Claims - Medical Record Number not
getting saved
One of the clients had reported an issue with the Medical Record Number not being saved in the
UB04 claim form Box 3b. It was noticed that MRN went missing when the claim was
resubmitted/saved back after opening in edit mode.
This issue was happening because the MRN was not there in update claim query for institutional
claims when claim is edited and submitted. However, the MRN was getting saved when a new
claim is created and submitted. This issue is fixed now.
12) [Ticket #11539] PH: Patient Eligibility History Window | Show more
information/New Columns
There was a request for a new feature enhancement in the Patient Eligibility History window. The
clinic had asked us to remove the DOS, Procedure Code Modifier and Procedure Code columns
as the inquiries were not done based on Procedure codes and introduce Insurance Type
(Primary/Secondary), Payer ID and Payer Name. This is done as shown in new eligibility history
screen provided below. This screen is available under Patient >> Eligibility status >> Patient
Eligibility History window or can be accessed or Web API.
13) [Ticket # 11541] PH: Posting - Ability to see more claims in the batch,
Enhanced Search Claim Filters/Sort Options
One of the clients requested us to have a feature enhancement in the Posting Batch screen. They
want to see all the claims listed for a batch in a single page. Hence, we have introduced a new
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option Records Per Page at the bottom of the “Claims for Batch” screen. The Records Per Page
will have four drop-down options such as 10, 20, 50 and 100. By default, the Records Per Page
will be displayed as “10”. The clinic can choose the no of claims to be displayed in single page
from the drop down. The no of records chosen per page will be dynamically synchronised with the
list of claims in the first page when the user moved to other pages. And also, the “Go” to Page
option work in sync with the Records Per Page option.
Also, new filters are introduced to the Add new search claims screen for adding claims to manual
Batch in the posting module.
1) Payer ID – This is an existing filter with a text field. In this version we have introduced two
drop-down options IN and NOT in the Payer ID filter. This filter will support multiple payer IDs
with comma separated values. By default, the Payer ID filter will be selected as” IN”.
2) Payer Name - This is an existing filter with a text field. We have introduced four drop-down
options Starts With, Contains, Equals and Ends with in the Payer Name filter. By default, the
Payer Name filter will be selected as “Starts with”.
3) Claim Closure Status – We have introduced this new filter in Add search claims screen and
will have three drop-down options such as All, Opened and Closed. By default, Claim Closure
filter will be selected as “Opened”.
4) Sort By – This new Sort option is introduced with five dropdowns such as Claim Received date,
Date of Service, Patient First Name, Patient Last Name and Payer ID. The user can sort it by
Descending or Ascending order. By default, Sort By filter will be selected as “Claim Received
Date in “Descending” order.
We have introduced a new column Payer ID in the Add search claims result screen. The column
name “Carrier” and “Other carrier” is replaced with Payer Name and Other Payer, respectively.
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14) [Ticket #11542] MDR + iTech Internal: Appointment Report
Enhancements
As per the client request, we have introduced two new filters Appointment Created Date and
Appointment ID in the Appointment Detail Report search screen. The Appointment created date is
added under the existing date filters and the Appointment ID separately as a text filter. This is
available under Reports >> Appointment >> Detail.
Additionally, we have introduced Appointment Created Date column next to Appointment Date
column in the Appointment Detail Report.
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15) [Ticket #11548] PH: Enhancement - DOS column on Claim Screen
under Posting Batch
One of the clients requested us to add a new feature in the Batch List screen of the Posting
module. The clinic asked us to add DOS (Date of Service) column in the posting batch screen.
Hence, we have introduced “DOS” column next to Patient Name in the Posting Batch screen. Also,
the “DOS” column is also available in the Print Preview screen which can be exported to PDF.
“DOS” in the Print Posted Claim Search Report screen.
16) [Ticket #11549] PH: Enhancement | New Filter “Under Aged” in Aging
Reports
There was a request for a feature enhancement in the Aging report - to add new option to filter the
“Under Aged” patients at the time of service. Hence, we have introduced the filter Under Age and
Show Patient Age (as on DOS) filter with a check box in the Aging report search screens. By default,
these options will be unchecked. The clinic can enable the Under Age option to fetch the Aging
report for patients below 18 years of age and enable the “Show Patient Age (as on DOS)” to display
the “Patient Age” column in the report.
The Under Age filter is introduced in the following search screens:
1) Aging by Program by Payer - Insurance Claims
a) Summary – Default/Periodic
b) Detail - Default/Periodic
2) Aging by Program by Payer – Self Pay Claims
a) Summary – Default/Periodic
b) Detail - Default/Periodic
The Show Patient Age (as on DOS) is introduced in the following search screens:
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1) Aging by Program by Payer - Insurance Claims
• Detail - Default/Periodic
2) Aging by Program by Payer – Self Pay Claims
• Detail - Default/Periodic
The Under Age filter will fetch records of all patient who age is <18. The age calculation logic is
based on Patient DOB against the Date of Service in the claim (Patient Age = "DOS - Patient DOB”)
By default, the “Show Patient Age (as on DOS)” option will be unchecked. The user can enable the
check box to display the “Patient Age” column in the Detail report and the print page.
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17) [Ticket #11572] MDR: Batch Error - Claims Created through ESB giving
error while posting
One of clients reported this issue in the Posting module for batch claims created through ESB.
When an operator creates a claim through ESB, the claims in the posting module was giving an
error. This issue was happening because the User Key in the claim table which was expected to
carry Practice Account User Key was having User Key of the operator who created the claim from
ESB. This was creating problems while posting and the user was not able to save the posting. A
database exception was found caused by wrong column key used. This is fixed in this version now.
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18) [Ticket #11585] PH: Enhancement - Age Group Filter in Revenue Board
Report
One of the clients requested us for a new feature enhancement in the Revenue Board report. The
clinic asked us to add “Age group” filter in Revenue Board report. A new filter “Age group is
introduced for both report type – Summary and Detail. The Age Group filter will display a list of age
criteria between the range. The range of the age selected is inclusive of the start and end value
age values.
The Age Group filter will have the following age criteria -
All, <1, 0-18, 1, 1-6, 2, 3-4, 3-5, 5, 6, 6-9, 7-10, 7-18, 10-14, 11-12, 13-18, 15-19, <18, 19-24,
20-24, 25-44, 45-64, 65+ and Custom.
By default, the Age Group filter will display “All”. The user can select the age group from the list
and fetch the report based on the criteria chosen. The patient age calculation logic is based on
the Patient DOB on the date of service (Patient Age = DOS - Patient DOB).
The custom age group will have sub filters such as Equals, Greater than, Less than and Between
with a text field. The user can customize the age criteria by selecting the sub filter with the age
entered in the text field. The text field is allowed to have up to 3-digit numeric values. The custom
age value is restricted for more than 3 digits.
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The Revenue Board Detail report will have the “Age Group” filter with the custom sub filters. Also,
a new option Show Patient Age (as on DOS) is introduced to show the Patient age in the Revenue
Board Detail report. By default, this option will be unchecked. The user can enable the check box
to display the “Patient Age” column in the Revenue Board Detail report and the print page.
Below shows the sample Revenue Board Detail report with the Patient Age as on DOS and Age
group.
19) [Ticket # 11629] MDR: Anesthesia claims support in ESB
There was a request for a new enhancement in the ESB claim form. The clinic asked us to add
anesthesia time field in the ESB claim form. Hence, a new field "Anesthesia” is introduced with
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the “Start and Stop" time under each service line in the ESB claim form. The anesthesia Start and
Stop time will be displayed in “Hours-Minutes” format.
When an ESB is submitted, the anesthesia Start and Stop time is validated on the following button
options:
1) Save - The "Anesthesia Start and Stop" time will not be validated when the ESB is saved.
2) Save + Mark as Completed- The "Anesthesia Start and Stop" time will be validated when the
ESB is saved & Marked as Completed.
Print ESB
If the ESB/Claim has Anesthesia timings specified, the "Anesthesia Start and Stop" column will
display the timing on the print page.
If the ESB/Claim has no Anesthesia timings the "Anesthesia Start and Stop" column will be shown
empty on the print page.
The "Anesthesia Start and Stop" timings are validated using the following rule:
1) The Anesthesia Start/Stop field must have valid 4digit time format in "hhmm". If the format is
incorrect, a message Invalid Anesthesia Start/Stop time will be shown.
2) The Start time must be lesser than the Stop time, else a message Anesthesia Start Time is
greater than Stop Time will be shown.
When the ESB is submitted as claim, the anesthesia time will be carried forward to the
professional claim screen/database.
20) [Ticket #11630] MDR: ESB Enhancement - Sync Hospitalization Date
with the Date of Service
One of the clients requested us for a new feature enhancement in the ESB claim form. The clinic
asked for synchronization of DOS with the Hospitalization date. Hence, we have introduced a new
synchronization icon with the “Hospitalization Dates for Current Services” field. This icon will
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synchronize/populate the Date of Service from the Hospitalization Date. When this icon is clicked,
the DOS will be populated in the service line section based on the Hospitalization Date specified
in the ESB
The Hospitalization Date fields will be taken for synchronization based on the following conditions:
1) The hospitalization “From” and “To” date should be present.
2) The hospitalization “From” and “To” date format should be Valid.
3) The hospitalization “From” date is earlier or same as “To" date.
The Date of Service fields will be synchronized only if:
1) Both the “From” and “To” Date of service field is empty.
2) At least one other field in the service line section must be populated with values to synchronize
DOS.
21) [Ticket #11631] MDR: Clear option to clear payer information in
patient demographics
There was a request for a new feature enhancement in the Patient Demographics tab. The clinic
asked us to add “Clear” button in the Insurance tabs. Hence, we have introduced a new “Clear”
button under the Primary, secondary and Tertiary tabs separately in the Patient Demographics
screen. This “clear” button will erase all data in the payer fields in the respective tabs.
By default, in Primary Insurance tab the “Clear” button will appear under Prof Payer, Inst Payer
and Eligibility Payer. If “Self-Pay Patient” is checked, the “Clear” button will not appear in the Prof
payer and Inst Payer tab as the payer information is read-only, but will appear under Eligibility
Payer tab.
The “Clear” button will appear for Prof Payer, Inst Payer, Eligibility Payer under Secondary and
Tertiary insurance tabs.
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22) [Ticket #11634] iTech: External Pay - Change in logic to call Rest API
when locally hosted
A new logic is introduced to call the Rest API by skipping SSL if External Pay is hosted locally and
not remotely on another server/domain. A remote flag is added in the External Pay properties file
to identify where the External Pay is hosted. hosted server is SSL certified.
expEDIumPay.host.location.remote
The allowed values are 0, and 1.
The properties file will carry the value 0 by default as installation default. (The program default is
1)
If the value is 1, it means the External Pay microservice is hosted remotely. The system will directly
go and connect to the app hosted over SSL
If the value is 0, it means the External Pay microservice is hosted locally, and it should go through
a custom code snippet which will bypass SSL Verification to avoid certificate error.
If any other value other than 0 and 1 are configured, the system will consider it as 1, the program
default (remotely hosted)
23) [Ticket #11649] PH: Posting Batch Enhancement – Allow longer batch
name (60 char) and enhance batch notes filter
One of the clients requested us for a new feature enhancement in the “Batch Name” field and
“Batch Notes” filter. The clinic asked us to extend the length of “Batch Name” and add filter to the
“Batch Notes”.
In this version, we have extended the length of batch name text field from 25 characters to 60
characters in the Create Batch screen and the Edit Batch details screen. The user can
create/modify a Batch Name with up to 60 characters of length in the text field.
If the length of the Batch Name is more than 30 characters, the Batch Name in the Batch list
column will be shown with a suffix of three dots after 30 characters. Also, a mouse hover is
introduced in the Batch List screen on batch name row to view the full Batch Name. Previously,
the mouse hover was only displaying Full Batch Notes in the Batch List screen. Now, both Batch
Name and Batch Notes will be shown when the mouse is hovered.
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In this version, a new sub filter is introduced in the “Batch Notes” filter in the Batch/Claim search
screen. This is available under Posting >> Manage >> Batch/Claim search >> Batch Notes. The
Batch Notes contain filters such as Equals, starts with, Contains and Ends with. By default, the
filter will be chosen as “contains”. The user can choose the criteria with the text and search for
Batch notes.
24) [Ticket #11652] PH: Close Button and Corner Close Icon are not
appearing on Eligibility History Window when opened from claim screen
One of the clients reported an issue in the Eligibility History window. The “close” button and “close”
icon at the right corner was not appearing on the Eligibility History window from the claim screen.
However, when the Eligibility History window was opened for the first time, the close icon appeared
at the top right corner of the window and while refreshing the claim screen, the close icon
disappeared. Due to this, the user was unable to close the Eligibility History window. This issue
was happening when eMB claims screens are opened in multiple tabs by the same user. There
was a conflict between the eligibility history windows opened from EMR over Web API (using a Web
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API flag) and the eligibility history window opened eMB Screen when opened in different tabs and
refreshed.
This flag fetching logic on these conflicting screens is enhanced to work in a multi-tab scenario
now. The issues are resolved from the following modules, and the close button and icon will always
appear when the eligibility history window is opened from eMB pages directly.
1) Claims
a) Add/Edit/Clone/View Primary Professional
b) Add/Edit/Clone/View Secondary Professional
c) Add/Edit/Clone/View Primary Institutional
d) Add/Edit/Clone/View Secondary Institutional
2) Patient
a) Eligibility >> Batches
b) Eligibility >> Inquiries
3) Appointments
a) Agenda View
25) [Ticket #11665] iTech: Disable Transaction Amount | Multi-Claim
Online Payment - By Claims, By SFS Program
In this version, we have disabled the “Amount” field for online payment transactions in the Patient
Balance Summary - By Claims and Patient Balance Summary - By SFS Program screen. The claim
balance for each claim is displayed as the transaction amount.
As per the design, we when multiple claims are selected for making single online payment
transaction, the amount field should be disabled, and user should not be able to make changes
to each claim balance.
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26) [Ticket #11682] iTech | Quick sanity testing the Manager module
required
The manager module functionalities are tested and approved as of this version (v5.1), to prepare
the system to have any future enhancements in manager module.
27) [Ticket #11686] iTech: Edit Ledger Transaction Window - SFS Program
should not be editable
There were issues with the SFS program drop down in Edit Transaction ledger window when the
program in the claim/claim ledger is not available in the state specific SFS Program Lookup table.
These issues are now resolved.
1) When the transaction is opened in edit mode from claim ledger, only the SFS Program Abbr.
with a hyphen as a read only label is appearing without SFS Program Name.
Fix: This is fixed to display the SFS Program Abbreviation and SFS Program Name
2) When the transaction is opened in edit mode from Patient Ledger, the SFS Program dropdown
is appearing with the entry "Select" with no SFS Program selected
Fix: The following fixes are done -
a) If Patient level transaction is opened in edit mode, and SFS Program Abbr. is not available
(removed) in the ledger from the ledger master, then the SFS Program dropdown will show
as “Select”. The user can choose the program from dropdown before updating the
transaction.
b) If Patient level transaction is opened in edit mode, and SFS program Abbr. is disabled from
"Patient demographics --> SFS tab”, then we will be populating that SFS Program Abbr.
selected as the first option in the dropdown with red color (indicating that this entry is an
odd item in the list as the list always show the programs enabled/enrolled for the patient).
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c) If Claim level transaction is opened in edit mode on claim ledger, and SFS Program is not
available (removed) in the ledger master, then we will be populating empty value for the
SFS Program Abbr. label in the edit transaction window. Also, when the transaction is
updated, the system will be validating this as a mandatory field and report error. The client
shall report these issues to support personnel as it requires analysis and surgical
corrections.
d) If Claim level transaction is opened in edit mode on claim ledger, and SFS Program is
disabled from "Patient demographics --> SFS tab”, then the system will be populating that
SFS Program Abbr. in the SFS Program Abbr. label in edit transaction window as read-only.
e) If Claim level transaction is opened in edit mode on patient ledger, and SFS Program is
not available (removed) in the ledger master, then the system will be populating empty
value for the SFS Program Abbr. Also, when the transaction is updated, the system will be
validating this as a mandatory field and report error. The client shall report these issues
to support personnel as it requires analysis and surgical corrections.
f) If Claim level transaction is opened in edit mode on patient ledger, and SFS Program is
disabled from "Patient demographics --> SFS tab, then the system will be populating that
SFS Program Abbr. in the SFS Program Abbr. label in edit transaction window as read-only.
28) [Ticket #11714] PH: Revenue Board Report | Self Pay Claims - Patient
Payment Amount is shown in Insurance Payment Amount wrongly
In Revenue Board report, for insurance claims, the insurance payment amount was always taken
from the ledger payment columns for the transaction types
a) Primary Insurance Payment (Auto)
b) Secondary Insurance Payment (Auto)
c) Primary Insurance Payment (Manual)
d) Secondary Insurance Payment (Manual)
The patient paid amount is fetched separately from the transaction entries which are marked as
“Patient Payment”
For the Self Pay claims, we had a wrong query to fetch the insurance amount from ledger payment
column all the time without any conditions. This was fetching the patient paid amount and all other
payment/credit transaction amounts and is getting populated as insurance payment amount. This
is now fixed.
We used the same insurance payment amount query used for insurance claims itself for Self-Pay
claims, so that it returns zero almost always. If there are cases where it returns a non-zero value,
it should be a genuine case of a Self-Pay claim having posting info (if it was previously submitted
as an insurance claim).
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29) [Ticket #11715] PH: Medicaid Claims by RA Date report - Shows
inaccurate claim count and check amount
In this report, the following logic was used to detect Medicaid primary claims –
Insurance Type = Primary
AND
Insurance Program Name (Box 1) = Medicaid
The claims in question were not having Box 1 as “Medicaid” and was having “Other” and were not
appearing in the report.
We enhanced the Medicaid check logic in the report as below to fix the issue
Insurance Type = Primary
AND
Insurance Program Name (Box 1) = Medicaid
OR
Claim Filing Indicator in Claim = MC
OR
Payer Name contains the word Medicaid
OR
Insurance Plan Name contains the word Medicaid
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Bugzilla List of tickets # ID Client Ext. Ticket
#
Summary Version
1 10973 MDR Via email MDR: Collection Report | Enhanced Default Report, New Report - By Service Line V5.1
2 10974 PH 33060 PH: Patient Payment Agreements V5.1
3 11026 MDR Via
email/GTM
MDR: Patient Demographics Enhancement | Patient Alternate Address and Employment
Status
V5.1
4 11182 iTech Internal iTech: Admin Module | Process - Manual Trigger | UI Improvements V5.1
5
11237
MDR
Via email MDR: Default Frequency Code as "2 Interim-First Claim" & Box 39a Value Codes & Type of
Bill from 0831 to 0832 on UB04 claims V5.1
6 11240 PH 888131 PH: AR report - To be enhanced to have Yearly and Half yearly date filters. V5.1
7 11248 MDR Via email MDR: Manage Reporting Procedure Codes + Show/Hide Option in Patient Statements V5.1
8 11354 PH 889003 PH: Transunion Secure FTP Connection issue | Transmission Library Upgrade and Module
Changes
V5.1
9 11430 PH 889576 PH: Ledger: Generate Receipt fails to print - CRLF/line break in transaction notes V5.1
10 11466 MDR Via email MDR2: New Claim (Prof/Inst) - Pre-configure practice, provider, and facility details V5.1
11 11476 MDR Via email MDR: UB04 Claims - Medical Record Number not getting saved V5.1
12 11539 PH 890061 PH: IEV Patient History table show more information-FEATURE REQUEST V5.1
13 11541 PH 890074 PH: Ability to see more claims, sort, claims on the Posting Batch screen - FEATURE REQUEST V5.1
14 11542 MDR
iTech
Internal MDR + Itech Internal: NFS in Appointment V5.1
15 11548 PH 889973 PH: Adding a DOS column to posting batch-FEATURE REQUEST V5.1
16 11549 PH 888854 PH: Request to add a filter to Aging Report to filter "Under Aged " patient at the time of
service
V5.1
17 11572 MDR Via email MDR: Batch Error - Claims Created through ESB carry different user key and hence posting
such claims gives error.
V5.1
18 11585 PH 890206 PH: Add Age Groups to Revenue Board Summary and Detailed report V5.1
19 11629 MDR Via email MDR: Anesthesia claims Support in ESB V5.1
20 11630 MDR Via email MDR: NFS-Correlate the Dates for Hospitalization Date with the Date of Service V5.1
21 11631 MDR Via email MDR: "Clear All" option to clear out all Insurance Information - from Patient dmg. V5.1
22 11634 iTech Internal iTech: External Pay - Change in logic to call Rest API locally by skipping SSL V5.1
23 11649 PH 890390 PH: Need longer batch list name -extend the length of Batch Name to 60 Characters and
enhance Batch Notes filter
V5.1
24 11652 PH 890179 PH: Close Button and Corner Close Icon are not appearing on Eligibility History Window
when open from claim screen
V5.1
25 11665 iTech Internal iTech: Disable Transaction Amount | Multi-Claim Online Payment - By Claims, By SFS
Program
V5.1
26 11682 iTech Internal iTech | Quick sanity testing the Manager module required V5.1
27 11686 iTech Internal iTech: Edit Ledger Transaction Window - SFS Program should not be editable V5.1
28 11714 PH 888213 PH: Revenue Board Report | Self Pay Claims - Patient Payment Amount is shown in
Insurance Payment Amount wrongly
V5.1
29 11715 PH 888624 PH: Medicaid Claims by RA Date report - Shows inaccurate claim count and check amount V5.1
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