| Features |
| New Pediatric Precautions
added. |
| When creating a new claim,
if a pricing contract has not been assigned to the patient's insurance record
you will be prompted for how you want to price the claim. At this point, you
can select from an existing contract or choose your own pricing scheme. |
| When select a patient, the
dates are now in yyyy-mm-dd to speed up sorting. |
| Inventory items can now be
tagged not to update AWP or retail prices. |
| You can now edit the
patient's allergy description. |
| When adding a new line to
a claim, an option has been added to copy the current line. |
| The patient financial
screen has been redesigned. You can now view all financial activity on this
screen: claims, reciepts, adjustments, claim balances and accout balance. |
| The receipts screen
has been redesigned. When entering a receipt, you can now enter two
adjustments. |
| Patient portion has been
added to each claim. This field is intended to be the patient portion
amount of the claim total and will display on the financial screen and patient
account statements. |
| A/R Reports no longer
display patients with 0 balances. |
| The default format
field has been removed from Utilities...Payers. This field was left over from
Ascend-IV and is no longer needed. |
| Inventory Pricing rule
feature has been added. You can now create rules for how you want your retail
price to be set. For example, you can create a rule that pricing all items
between $1 and $2 at 200% of AWP. |
| Option to require allergy
and/or diagnosis when adding a new patient added to
Utilities...Options...Admission. |
| Pricing contracts can now
be priced at down to one-tenth percent. For example, 84.9% would round up to
85%, now it stays at 84.9%. |
| Support for HIForms.MDB
(previously IVNURSE.MDB in Ascend-IV) now added. This program can be downloaded
from our website under Other Downloads. If the file exists in the applications
path, then the Access Forms menu option will appear under the Clinical menu. |
| Enter key should operate
the same as the tab key on the DME screen. |
| Payer Option added to
print the claim number in box 26 on the HCFA. |
| Button added to the
patient allergies' screen to Add NKA. |
| Patient Account Statement
- Summary report added. |
| Patient Account Statement
- Detail report added. |
| Financial Daily
Activity - Summary report added. |
| Financial Daily
Activity - Detail report added. |
| Patient Profile - Other
Medications report added. |
| On-Call Patient List
report added. |
| Compound Sheet used the
inventory strength vs. the order strength. |
| Option added to print drug
description 2 on the Order Label. |
| Added Billing Description
to Inventory record. When this field contains text, the charge description will
use the billing description. |
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| Fixes |
| Updates can now be unpacked across the network
without having to map a drive letter. |
| When entering a fill quantity that exceeds the
quantity authorized, the program correctly displays a warning. |
| Blank item has been removed from the inventory item
list during order entry. |
| Error 94 fixed when saving a payer record. |
| Error 380 fixed when refilling/pasting orders. |
| Ascend-IV Import uses the order entered date
instead of defaulting to the system date as the Ascend-HI order entered date. |
| Cancelled claims no longer appear on the Financial
tab and reports. |
| Editing an adjustment does not change it to a
receipt. |
| Editing an adjustment does not revert the dollar
amount from a negative to a positive. |
| Print preview fixed for claims when selected from
the patient profile screen. |
| Billing Units in inventory now functions properly.
A billing unit of 2 for Vancomycin 1000MG would break the charge (quantity,
cost and price)into 500MG increments. |
| Entered Date correctly uses current date when
refilling/copying an order. |
| When adding a common order to a patient, refills
authorized does not default to 0. |
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| Database Tables
Added |
| InventoryPricing |
| Referrals |
| Database Tables
Removed |
| ClaimsCredits |
| Database Fields
Added |
| Table |
Field |
Size |
| Claims |
AdjustmentTypeRef |
Int |
| Claims |
PatientAmountDue |
Money |
| Inventory |
AWPDoNotAutoUpdate |
Bit |
| Inventory |
RetailDoNotAutoUpdate |
Bit |
| Inventory |
Route |
Varchar(2) |
| PatientTherapies |
TherapyRef |
Int |
| Patients |
ReferredByRef |
Int |
| Payers |
HCFABox26 |
TinyInt |
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| Database Fields
Removed |
| Table |
Field |
Size |
| ClaimsItems |
CreditToPayerRef |
|
| ClaimsItems |
CreditToPatientRef |
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| ClaimsItems |
AdjustmentType |
|
| PatientTherapies |
Therapy |
|
| Patients |
ReferredBy |
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| PricingRules |
PerdiemFirstItemOnly |
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