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Current Release Notes

 

 

The enhancement and fixes detailed below pertain to the items included in the most recent BASCONNECTTM software release (Release 4.2).

 

Enhancements

Enhancements include new features and modifications for the following issues:

Application

Category

Issue

Description

PortalApplication5475

Connect Portal, a new web-based report management tool, was created and deployed.

 Dashboard

8268, 8269, 6169, etc.

Created two views, accessible from the Connect Portal Dashboard. Each view has related widgets displaying financial and operations-related information pertinent to the selected practice.

View

Widget

Current Month - Accounting   
  • Days in AR (90 day trailing)
  • Net Collection %
  • % A/R > 90 days
  • Payer Mix (Charges)
  • Payer Mix (Payments)
  • MTD Metrics
  Prior Month – Date of Service   
  • Anesthesia Minutes by Provider   
  • Anesthesia Units by Payer

  • Rendering Provider Case Count   

  • Billed vs. Expected vs. Collected

  • Payer Mix (Charges)
  • Payer Mix (Payments)
Back Office & PortalReports4112, etc

New reports created and available from both Back Office reports and Portal:

Report Name

Category

12 Month Payment Waterfall Summary

Financial   
13 Month Financial Activity Summary   Financial   
Account Adjustment Analysis Detail   Financial   
AR Activity Summary   Financial   
AR Aging Analysis Detail   Aging   
Billed vs. Expected vs. Collected Summary   Management   
Case Mix Trend Summary   Management   
Charge Analysis Detail   Management   
Charge Mix Trend Summary   Financial   
Collection Trend Analysis Summary   Management   
Credit Balances Detail   Management

Diagnosis/Procedure Count Summary

Management   
Elapsed Time Analysis Detail   Management   
Facility Details   System   
Guarantor Collection Actions Detail   Productivity   
Insurance Collection Actions Detail   Productivity   
Insurance Payment Denial Detail   Productivity   
Patient Responsibility Detail   Management   
Payer Mix Summary   Financial   
Payment Mix Trend Summary   Financial   
Plan Details   System   
Practice Performance Summary   Financial

Practice Performance Summary (DOS)

Management   
Production Analysis Summary   Productivity
  

5969, etc.

Standard reports, previously available in Connect Back Office Reports and Reportal were converted to new reports in Connect Back Office and Connect Portal:

Report Name

Category

Anesthesia Case     Utilization – Case Output   

Productivity   
Anesthesia Case     Utilization – Performing Provider Output   Productivity   
Deposit Analysis Detail   Financial   
Deposit Analysis Summary   Financial   
Outcome Details   Productivity   
Practice Performance Analysis   Financial
  

8012

Some report names were modified to ensure consistent naming conventions across applications.

A Category classification was added to each report.

  

3624

The Practice Performance Analysis report was modified:

  • Payer Group filter changed to Financial Class
  • Facilities filter option added
  • Practices filter option added
  

7749

The Outcome Details report was enhanced to include the following data:

  • Measure
  • ASA Value
  • Value Modifier
  

8331, 8332

Modified the Net Collection % calculation in the Financial Activity Summary and 13 Month Financial Activity Summary reports to:

  • (Payments to Line Items + Refunds from A/R) / (Charges Billed + CWO)
  8335

Date range limits were applied to the reports with a Date filter. Some reports only allow for a 31 day date range and others allow for a 366 day date range. If the dates fall outside the allowed day limit, a warning message is presented to the user running the report.

31 Day Limit

366 Day Limit

  • Anesthesia Case Utilization – Case Output
  • Anesthesia Case Utilization – Performing Provider Output
  • Billed vs. Expected vs. Collected
  • Charge Analysis Detail
  • Collection Trend Analysis Summary
  • Elapsed Time Analysis Detail
  • Insurance Payment Denial Detail
  • Practice Performance Analysis
  • Practice Performance Summary
  • Practice Performance Summary (DOS)
  • Production Analysis Summary
  • Survey Vitals Extract
                                               
  • Account Adjustment Analysis Detail
  • AR Activity Summary
  • Case Mix Trend Summary
  • Charge Mix Trend Summary
  • Deposit Analysis Detail
  • Deposit Analysis Summary
  • Diagnosis/Procedure Count Summary
  • Financial Activity Summary
  • Guarantor Collection Actions Detail
  • Insurance Collection Actions Detail
  • Outcome Details
  • Payer Mix Summary
  • Payment Mix Trend Summary
  8396

For reference, reports exported to Excel will include the title of the report in the A1 cell and the filter criteria at the bottom of the Excel file, below the report results.

In Portal, the filter criteria can also be found at the base of the Detail page, below the report results.

Back OfficeReports 8324 

The Reports page will now include 2 tabs: Modern and Classic.

The Modern tab includes the new and converted reports available in 4.2. 

The Classic tab houses the reports that were unchanged in this release:

  • AR Aging
  • ePreop Extract
  • Financial Activity Summary
  • Insurance Followup Detail
  • Survey Vitals Extract
  

5948

Added Report Permissions to the Home page and Admin menu to access the Report Permissions page for adding/deleting report folders in Connect Back Office Reports and Connect Portal.

Permissions can be set per role to Create, View, Update, or Delete reports from the folders.

  2111Added Custom Fields to the Home page and Admin menu to access the Custom Fields page for creating and managing custom fields on the Case page > General Case Information tab.
General System Help Not applicableOnline Help has been updated with a new design and format. The updated documentation is available for Connect Portal and select Connect Back Office pages. It can be accessed by clicking F1 from a page within either application. Note: Updates for the remaining Back Office pages are forthcoming and will be deployed in a future release.

Fixes

Fixes include corrections for the following issues:

ApplicationCategory IssueDescription
Back Office

Accounts

8182

Fixed issued causing a timeout error when executing an account search.

 

Guarantor Collections

8201

Fixed issue causing an error message when trying to add new assignment rules or new action type for guarantor collections.

 

Fee Schedules

8204

Fixed issue causing an error message when trying to update a compensation fee schedule for a practice.

 

Suspense

8251

Fixed issue allowing the same suspense transaction to be distributed more than once.

 

 

Related Topics

Getting to Know Connect

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