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About Connect Help

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Welcome to Connect, a platform consisting of multiple applications used for managing elements related to medical billing.

The Help Documentation guides you through using Connect via topics which provide:

  • Page, window, and field definitions
  • Step-by-step guides for common system processes
  • Links to helpful training videos and support documentation
  • Access to current and past release notes

 

Note

Connect Help is currently under construction. Additional topics are forthcoming and will be added to the site as they are written.

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The latest Connect release is 2021.31. Highlights of this release include the following:

Accounts

  • Configured Connect to automatically place an account on statement hold when the account is sent to Guarantor Collections.
  • Added Spellcheck functionality to Account / Notes tab when creating a new note.
  • Added Ext Pending Deny button to the Account / Active AR page to deny a service line item pending in external collections.
  • Added new Create button to the Accounts page to initiate the Create Accounts process.

Charge Entry

  • Added View Case button to Charge Batches / Case Holds tab.
  • Revised Case Hold Notes functionality to allow more than one note to be logged, and to include time stamp and user information.
  • Modified accident data entry on a case so that if the Case Involves Accident field is selected, the Accident Date is required.
  • Added user notification when encountering an error during import of pages in a PDF file.

Claim Holds

  • Modified logic to allow users to simultaneously place all claims on hold for a single practice.

Codes

  • Added 2020 Q3 code updates:
    • Claim Status Codes
    • Remittance Advice Remark Codes
    • Taxonomies
  • Removed expired CPT codes which were still available for selection during case creation.

Collections Admin

  • Moved Collection Letters Admin functionality to the Collections Admin page.
  • Fixed issue where collection actions deactivated in Collections Admin were still available for selection when creating an Action in Collections.

Concurrency Schemes

  • Fixed issue generating an error message when saving a Concurrency Scheme.

ERAs

  • Fixed issue causing the balance to incorrectly roll to the guarantor when PR-31 is designated as the denial code and the denial rule for PR-31 is set to “Do Nothing”.

External Collections

  • Fixed issue causing the server to time out during export of large external collection files.

Fee Schedules

General

  • Updated Connect Help to launch as external browser window outside the application.
  • Added Clear Image Cache options to the Help menu.

Image Batches

  • Fixed issue generating an error message when importing a PDF from Scan Batches.
  • Resolved issue causing imported images to be missing or display distorted.

Payers & Plans

  • Modified ‘Clone Plan’ functionality to allow the Payer to be changed, effectively moving a cloned plan from one payer to another.
  • Resolved issue causing an error when cloning a Payer.

Payment Batches

  • Fixed issue preventing successful printing of remit with attached pages.

Practices

  • Fixed the Practice/Miscellaneous/Action field drop down under the Force service to internal collections if expected does not match allowed checkbox to only include actions assigned to the practice for selection.

Pre-Collections

  • Added prompt to the Create Start File window to designate the Number of Returned Results.

Quality

  • Fixed issue that was preventing an Outcome with a modifier to be cleared from an Outcome Group when de-selected.

Refunds

  • Added ability to select and post/deny multiple refunds in a single transaction.

Reports

  • Added new report: Charge Payment Posting Summary.
  • Added Include Reversals option to the Case Analysis Detail report filters.
  • Changed the Notes column to Most Recent Note column in the Case Hold Detail report.
  • Fixed issue preventing all practice data to display upon selecting multiple practicesfor the AR Aging Analysis Detailreport.
  • Fixed issue generating an error message when exporting a report to Excel.
    • Modified the logic behind the ePreop and Admin reports to populate non-Anesthesia data fields with the information needed to successfully export and submit the reports.
    • Fixed the Facility filter on the AQI Report to allow selection and presentation of the correct data in the report.
    • Removed the hotkey functionality behind the Support menu. ALT+S will now be used exclusively throughout the application to save a record

    Statements

    • Fixed issue causing statements for accounts in External Collections to generate too early.

    To view the full release notes for the current Connect release, click here

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