Weekly News

Billing User Group Meeting July 19th

We are holding a User Group meeting for clients using the Billing Component.  This meeting will focus on recent changes made to the payment posting screen .

Updates to the payment screen include:

• Auto Payment entry based on Plan fee schedule
• Auto entry of common Statement Comments
• Billing Secondary Insurance from payment screen

The meeting will also review retrieving batch status reports from the Web Portal, and the new UHP Claim Status Reports

Please be sure to RSVP to Ronda at 781-7810 x 106

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UHP Claim Status Reports

We have completed work on mapping the UHP 277 file to a readable Claim Status report.  Each practice's reports will be sent out on a weekly basis until the link to these reports is added to the web portal, which we expect to have done by the end of this month. 

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Integrated Crystal Reports Screen

We recently added an interface screen within EpiChart to acces over 100 Crystal reports that we have designed.  The report groupings include the RIQP Diabetes Collaberative measures, BCBSRI Quality Counts Measures, General Financial reports, and Misc reports.  Your office will need to purchase a copy of Crystal Reports ($200) to be able to read these reports

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Upgrades to Version 5.07

Mike and Don will be out to all sites during the months of July and August to upgrade everyone to Version 5.07.  They will also load a message engine on your server that will give your EpiChart System the following capabilities:

• Surescripts Electronic Prescribing
• On-Line Clinical Summary Record for treating physicians you have pre-authorized
• HL7 Lab Interface Capability

We are nearing the end of our testing with Lifespan Lab and Quest lab.  We expect both of these lab interfaces to go live in early August.  We have also been working with St Joseph Hospital Lab, and expect that interface to be up by September 1st.   As a result, we fully anticipate that by September 1st, we will be up and running with:

• East Side Clinical Lab
• LifeSpan Lab
• Quest Lab
• St Joseph Hospital Lab 

The new lab interface allows for partial, final, and corrected lab reports.

To recieve this weekly newsletter via  e-mail forward your email to Ronda at ronda@polarismedical.com

This Week

EpiChart User Group

Meeting are held the 3rd Wednesday of each montth.  The next user group meetings are scheduled for :

July 19th : BILLING

August : No Meeting

September 20th :  GENERAL

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