447

Released on 2016-01-06

About This Release

We are pleased to announce the official release of Practice Perfect EMR + Management Software Version 2.0 R447. Please review the attached list of new features & benefits carefully.

 

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General & Setup

Other Contacts & Physicians

A No Further Contact field has been added to Other Contacts, which will also be included in any Excel export.

General & Setup

Order of multi-locations

The Location drop-down will now be in order of Location Code, if one exists, and then by the name of the location if no Location Code is present.

Clients

Client Listing

Each client's Incident Physician will now appear above the line break between clients.

Scheduler

Find Appointments

The Show new clients only button on this report was not working - this has been corrected.

Financial

Receipts with Details

The Date column has been widened to accommodate longer Windows dating formats.

Financial

Billing Rules

A bug involving payor rates when a Total Units billing rule existed in which the proper payor rate was not reflected has been corrected.

Reporting

Revenue Report

If the Show Checked-in Duration option is selected, the Time In/Time Out for that visit will now also be included.

Reporting

Statements

Statements did not fit properly into standard #10 envelopes, this has been corrected.

Clinical Documentation/EMR

Daily Notes & Progress Reports

A warning will now appear if an attempt is made to create a daily note with a future date.

Clinical Documentation/EMR

Daily Notes & Progress Reports

Compact Notes were sometimes cutting off text during printing - this has been corrected.

Clinical Documentation/EMR

Customizable Documents

Primary Payor Adjuster Name and Fax # have been added as integrated fields.

Clinical Documentation/EMR

Customizable Documents

Client Health # has been added as an integrated field.

Clinical Documentation/EMR

Imported/Scanned Documents

This restriction has been removed.

US Billing Specific

HCFA/EHCFA 1500 (2014) forms

If an Injury Date exists and a Cause of Injury has been selected, Box 14 will not be sent on the HCFA/eHCFA. Instead, Box 15 will be sent with a "439" qualifier.

US Billing Specific

HCFA/EHCFA 1500 (2014) forms

In Column H of Section 24 of the HCFA/eHCFA, if Box 24H and EDSPT are both entered, then Box 24H upper will be completed. If only Box 24H is entered, then Box 24H lower will be completed.

US Billing Specific

EDI 835 Remittance Processing

If the order of submitted modifiers does not match the order of the remittance modifiers, the payment will now be applied regardless which did not happen in the past.

US Billing Specific

EDI 835 Remittance Processing

If the order of submitted modifiers does not match the order of the remittance modifiers, the payment will now be applied regardless which did not happen in the past.

Canadian Billing Specific

Ontario HCAI General

Several rounding errors involving the use of 2 decimal points have been corrected on all submissions.

Clinical Documentation/EMR

ALL Daily Notes & Documents

On all Activities by Daily Note and Activities by Document screens, there is a drop-down option entitled Status. A new item has been added to this drop-down entitled "Deleted Items/Documents". If selected, all deleted Notes or Documents will be listed. These items can now be flagged and  recovered.