7.2.27 Service Pack Release Notes 11-7-07

• Print Exception Report (Billing, Insurance Billing Functions, Electronic Claims) - ***New Functionality*** - Electronic Insurance Paper Claims Only - It has always been a policy that you should not submit any electronic paper claims to the CGM Clearing House for any government payers. In preparation of converting to the new paper CMS Insurance form a restriction has now been placed in the programs for electronic claims to only allow claims that are for Commercial Carriers - Insurance Form Type 'F'. If you have any carriers setup to be sent as electronic paper that are NOT for Form Type 'F', any claims for them will be placed on the Electronic Claims Exception Report containing the message, 'Can only send commercial carriers on electronic paper'.

• Patient Hospital Rounds - This report was not always printing with a blank line between each patient. This has been corrected.
  
• Change Patient Data - Transaction History screen - Reverse Action - Reversing transactions resulted in an error intermittently. A correction has been made to prevent this from happening.
  
• Change Patient Data - Transaction History screen - Refile Action - With Internet Explorer version 6, the Save and Cancel buttons were missing or were partially hidden from view on the Refile dialog box. This problem has been corrected.
  
• Change Patient Data - DMS - Alert Record - If you setup the NOTES field as 'required' in the Defaults, Fixed and Required Fields function, the message 'NOTES: this response is required by your practice.' would sometimes appear when saving the record, even though text was already entered in the field. This problem has been corrected.
  
• Change Patient Data - The length of the Address Line 1 and Address Line 2 fields have been increased from 28 to 35 characters in the Patient Name and Address and Guarantor Information screens.
  
• Change Patient Data - Case Management - The Primary Diagnosis field has been expanded to allow up to 10 characters.
  
• Change Patient Data - Letter - It was possible for the NetPracticePM server to freeze when printing certain types of Rich Text letters from the Patient Summary screen. This problem has been corrected.
  
• Review Patient Information - ***New Functionality*** - Transaction History - An EOB image will now appear for primary payments that are tied to a case. Prior to this update, the EOB image would only appear for non-case payments.

• Detailed Procedure Analysis (Reports, Statistical Reports) - The format of the report has been changed when you print the report to Excel. Each field will now print in a separate column and the totals have been removed.
  
• Sorted Procedure Analysis Reports (Reports, Statistical Reports, Detailed Procedure Analysis) - The format of the report has been changed when you print the report to Excel. Each field will now print in a separate column and the totals have been removed.
  
• Detailed Procedure Analysis (Reports, Statistical Reports) - Deleting procedure codes from the Selected Procedure Codes list did not always function correctly. This problem has been corrected.
  
• Detailed Diagnosis Analysis (Reports, Statistical Reports) - Deleting diagnosis codes from the Selected Diagnosis Codes list did not always function correctly. This problem has been corrected.

• Missing Superbill Report (Schedule, Scheduling Printing Menu) - ***New Functionality*** - This report can now be sorted by Type of Visit.
  
• Enter Patient Appointments - The Print function from the Action Column now displays the day of week before each appointment date.
  
• Enter Patient Appointments - Patient alerts did not display after selecting a patient from the Inquiry function. This problem has been corrected.

• Group NPI Number Table (Tables, Doctor Code Table, Provider Number Table) - ***New Functionality*** - Two new fields have been added so you can store Group NPI Numbers for a specific Insurance Form type and Insurance Carrier. When you create insurance claims, NetPracticePM will determine which NPI # to report based on the highest level of data (number of fields) entered. The samples provided below are just a few of a wide variety of scenarios that could occur at each level. The general guideline that NetPracticePM uses to determine the level of data is 'the quantity of fields that have been completed in addition to the NPI Number field.'
  
  
  Level 1: If all the doctors in the practice are considered a group when they practice at a specific location:
  
  • (1 field in addition to the NPI#)
    
  • Insurance Form = 0 not applicable
    
  • Insurance Carrier = leave blank
    
  • Doctor Code = leave blank
    
  • Location Code = applicable location code
    
  • NPI Number = number assigned to the location for all the doctors
  
  Level 2: If all the doctors in the practice are considered a group when they practice at a specific location for patients with any Blue Cross insurance:
  
  • (2 fields in addition to the NPI#)
    
  • Insurance Form = G - Blue Cross
    
  • Insurance Carrier = leave blank
    
  • Doctor Code = leave blank
    
  • Location Code = applicable location code
    
  • NPI Number = number assigned by Blue Cross to the location for all the doctors
  
  Level 3: If all the doctors in the practice are considered a group when they practice at a specific location for patients with Medicaid insurance:
  
  • (3 fields in addition to the NPI#)
    
  • Insurance Form = D - Medicaid
    
  • Insurance Carrier = applicable insurance carrier code
    
  • Doctor Code = leave blank
    
  • Location Code = applicable location code
    
  • NPI Number = number assigned by Medicaid to the location for all the doctors
  
  Level 4: If Medicaid has issued a specific Group NPI when any of 3 specific doctors practice at a specific location (out of the 7 total doctors in the practice):
  
  • (4 fields in addition to the NPI#)
    
  • Insurance Form = D - Medicaid
    
  • Insurance Carrier = applicable insurance carrier code
    
  • Doctor Code = applicable doctor code (repeat this process for each applicable doctor code)
    
  • Location Code = applicable location code
    
  • NPI Number = number assigned by Medicaid to the location for the doctor

• Bank Deposit Slip (Transactions, Transaction Journals) - The check number total was not being re-calculated correctly for reversed payments. If a payment is reversed, the reversed amount will now be deducted from the check number total.