Enterprise Edition 15.2 Release Notes

March 26, 2015

Below are the latest updates to Enterprise Edition.

The following icons denote items that you should pay close attention to. These items may need an adjustment to your work flow and processes or set up to function as designed, or to meet regulatory changes and mandates.

firstHOMECARE

Maintenance

• Changes have been made to Patients | Documents | F2F so that Face to Face documents are locked from the Document Grid and are not set to require an e-signature. Previously, Face to Face documents were required to have an e-signature.

• Changes have been made to Reports | Billing | 1500 so that, when 1500 claims are set to bill in 15-minute increments (from the Master Files | Payors / Plans | Billing Formats screen), the reported units for visit hours will display in 15-minute increments, accordingly, for both the electronic version and paper forms for 1500 claims.

• Changes have been made to Alerts to modify Alert 184 so that it only views OASIS documents that have been locked, but not certified, when the locked date is less than 120 days prior.

• Changes have been made to Reports | CAHPS Survey | CAHPS Survey report to enhance performance so it is able to process reports with a larger quantity of data.

• Changes have been made to Accounts | Billing | Claims to resolve an issue for specific instances that was causing the HIPPS Code and Diagnosis Code to be populated incorrectly.

firstHOSPICE

Maintenance

• Changes have been made to IDT Plan of Care and IDT Plan of Care Update so that Range and Amount field frequencies are properly pulled into the IDT Listing report.

• Modifications have been made to Reports | CAHPS Survey | CAHPS Survey report as follows:

• • Eligibility section has been removed due to additional CAHPS clarifications. Stored procedures should now be updated to include the following in the export file:

  • • Patient under the age of 18

    • Patients that have died in less than 48 hours since their last admission to hospice care

  • Patient Exclusions/Admissions list no longer includes an Exclusion column for patients that are under 18 years old or have died in less than 48 hours since last hospice admission.

  • Total Decedent Count now equals all MCR/MCD patients that have died within the calendar month, including those that elected for no publicity/CAHPS exclusion. Total Decedent Count will not include patients that were discharged alive during the calendar month.

  • Patient Record/Rows now exists for all patients that have died within the calendar month with the exception of those that have elected for no publicity and have box next to Exclude from CAHPS export checked.

NOTE: The file will continue to include a column count for the total number of live discharges, but individual Patient Record rows will not exist for patients who were discharged alive.

firstHOMECARE and firstHOSPICE

Maintenance

• Changes have been made to Reports | Patient | Data Sheet to resolve an issue that was causing an error to populate instead of pulling Patient Medication data:

• • “One or more parameters were not specified for the subreport, ‘subrptPatDatMeds’, located at: C:/inetpub/hcfirst/rptsubPatDatMeds.rdlc”

• Changes have been made to Patients | Relationships | Caregivers to resolve an issue that was causing the incorrect entry to be removed when a user attempted to delete the selected caregiver from the grid.

•  Changes have been made to Patients | Care Profile | Medications to include functionality that allows users to sort items in the grid for each column of data.

Coming Soon to firstHOMECARE!

Coming to Enterprise Edition with our 15.3 release is additional functionality that will allow users to choose if a Payer Plan is billed by either Gross or Net amounts (See screenshot below for reference). More information will be provided regarding setup and functionality as we near implementation of our 15.3 release.

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