Version 1.3.415 (3/28/2003) - View All Updates

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.
     
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.
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
Database Fields Removed
Table Field Size
ClaimsItems CreditToPayerRef
ClaimsItems CreditToPatientRef
ClaimsItems AdjustmentType
PatientTherapies Therapy
Patients ReferredBy
PricingRules PerdiemFirstItemOnly