The latest Connect release is 21.5. Highlights of this release include the following:

Accounts

• Added Last Insurance Payment and Last Guarantor Payment information to the Account: ID / General / Statements section.

Charge Entry

• Updated Box 32 options on the Plan / Paper Claim Options page to be Print when POS is not Home (12) or Office (11) or Assisted Living Facility (13).

• Modified claim logic so that if Place of Service is set to 13 for the claim and Box 32 for the plan is set to Print when POS is not Home (12) or Office (11) or Assisted Living Facility (13), then the following are not populated:

• Box 32 on the Paper Claim Form (CMS 1500, NUCC 1500, MediCal California, Medicare California)
• Loop 2310C on the Electronic Claim

EDC

• Fixed issue causing Referring Provider names to disappear when configuring an EDC and switching the Mapping Element.

EMC

• Removed the hard coded logic for the facility-specific billing provider address; added a new option to the Plan / Claims tab to designate if the plan should use the facility-specific billing provider address.

Facilities

• Updated the Facility Name field to perform a validation of the 35-character limit upon saving or applying the record.

Fee Schedules

• Refresh functionality added to fee schedules when the name is updated and saved.

Financial Classes

• Added logic to auto-refresh the Financial Classes page when a Financial Class is created or updated.

Payers & Plans

• Added Referral # option to the Box 17a (Shaded) field of the Plan: ID / Paper Claim Options tab. If selected, the Referral # will print in Box 17a of the Paper Claim.

Preferences

• Modified the wording of the Keyboard Option on the Preferences / General tab to: Force Uppercase for all users (admin-only).

Reports

• Added Patient and Guarantor detail fields to the Patient Responsibility Detail report.
• Updated the Charge Analysis Detail report with new fields (First Non-cancelled Claim ID, Pre-Auth Number, Referral Number, and Allowed) and a new Date Mode option (Posted Date).

Roles

• Added new right: Account – Merge to Back Office. If Update is selected for this right, the user is allowed to perform the “Merge Accounts” functionality on the Accounts / General tab.
• Added new right: Images to Back Office. If Delete is selected for this right, the user is allowed to delete images from the Image Viewer page (throughout Connect).

Statements

• Added Guarantor DOB, Patient DOB, and Province Code to DMA statement file.

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