Release Notes

Back Office

Charge Batches

4640

The Case Report Type field on the Case > General Case Information tab was updated to display the drop down list options in alphabetical order.

8607

Submitted cases can be cloned.

8750

Claim holds and the release date can now be set at the case level via the Case [ID] page > General Case Information tab.

9543

The [ALT] + [E] hotkey has been removed from the Error Check button on the Case: New and Case: [ID] pages.

Claims

7627

The ability to type in search criteria in the Claims > Paper Claims > Search Criteria > Created By field was added. As you type, the available options from the drop down will filter to display only those that match the search text entered.

8868

Added Case Time – Minutes worked (append ‘min’) option to Box 24g drop down options on the Plan: [name] / Paper Claim Options tab. Selecting this option appends “min” after the total minutes value in Box 24G on the NUCC 1500 paper claim.

General

7250

The Practice is now auto-selected when creating an image, statement, charge, or payment batch when the instance contains only one practice.

Fee Schedules

4298

Fee Schedules now supported at the Enterprise-level. Fee Schedules tab removed from the Practices page and added as a new Admin topic.

Messages

8049

Added new Messages option to the File menu to access the Messages page.

Messages can be searched, created, viewed, updated, replied to, and archived from the Messages page.

Payers and Plans

5820

The Payer ID field on the Plan: [ID] / Claims tab was updated to display the drop down list options in alphabetical order.

8314

Sort order for procedures on an electronic claim can now be set to sort first by provider and then by procedure type. This preference is set by selecting the Group procedures by provider on claim option on the Plan: [name] > Anesthesia tab.

8933

A new option, Generate one claim per provider, was added to the Plan: [name] > Anesthesia tab. If selected, the claim generation process will generate a new claim for each rendering provider on the case.

Payment Batches

5081

Added “contains” search logic to the following fields on the Payment Batches > Search Criteria window:

• Check Number
• Remitter Name

5608

Added “contains” search logic to the following fields on the Payment Batch: Import > Search Criteria window:

• Payer Name
• Check/EFT Number

Practices

5148

Added the ability to affiliate referring providers to practices and facilities.

The Referring Physician drop down filter on the Coding window and General Case Information tab was modified to only return referring physicians associated with the selected practice and facility.

New Type toggle button with options for Practice and Referring added to the Practice / Affiliated Providers and Facility / Affiliated Providers tabs to filter the providers listed.

Reports

8773

New tabs added to Manage > Reports page: Scheduled and Output. These tabs are used to schedule report execution and view the output.

New permissions tab, Reports – Scheduling, added to Role [ID] page for assigning the ability to create, update, and/or delete scheduled report jobs by user role.

Reports - Scheduling

7600, 7601, 7602

Report jobs can be scheduled for specific or recurring times.

8772

The maximum number of scheduled jobs allowed is set to 10. A message is returned to users if they attempt to create a job after the maximum has been met.

6146

New tabs added to Portal: Scheduled and Output. These tabs are used to schedule report execution and view the output.

Roles

9225

The Portal option in the Topics drop down list of the Role: [name] / Rights section has been renamed Reports.

9226

The following reports were removed from the Role page > Reports > Back Office section and added to the Role page > Rights > Reports section:

• Anesthesia Case Utilization - Case Output 
• Anesthesia Case Utilization – Performing
• Provider Output 
• Denial Detail 
• Deposit Analysis 
• Elapsed Time Analysis 
• Outcome Details 
• Practice Performance 
• Thirteen Month Financial Activity Summary 

Roles / Users

5033

The layout of the User: New and Role: New pages modified with a new layout.

New button added to the User: New page > Practice Affiliations and Roles sections to allow quick selection/deselection of practices and roles. The button toggles between Select None/Select All options.

Account Status field updated to Active Account checkbox. If checked, the account is Active.

Administrator field updated to Administrator checkbox. If checked, account is set as an Administrator.

New Reset Password (ALT+R) button added to the User: [Name] page to access the Reset Password window.

7782

A new Admin column was added to the Users page to identify if the user has administrator privileges.

9080

Modified Role and User pages with general improvements to layouts and use of space. 

9045

Permissions developed for Admin and Security Topics.

Back Office/Portal

Reports

8189

New Charge Entry Productivity widget added to Portal Dashboard.

New Charge Entry Productivity Detail report added to Portal and Back Office reports.

8194

New Payment Entry Productivity widget added to Portal Dashboard.

New Payment Entry Productivity Detail report added to Portal and Back Office reports.

9554

Date restrictions (e.g., 30 days) on reports have been removed. Current Year and Previous Year search options have been added to reports to support expanded searches.

9666

The field, Procedure Quantity, was added to the Charge Analysis Detail report.

Portal

Dashboard

9395, 8193

New Productivity dashboard added to Portal. The view includes the following widgets: Charge Entry Productivity, Payment Entry Productivity, and Collector Entry Productivity.

8523

Added sidebar to Portal with a folder list of available system and user-defined dashboards.

Added the ability to create and save customized dashboards to include user-selected widgets.

Added the ability to apply a Practice and Date (Month/Year) filter to a saved dashboard. This overrides all widget settings.

Added the ability to set a default dashboard.

General

9003

The GUI of Portal was updated with a Bolder color scheme and is now titled BASCONNECT.

Messages

8851

New messaging functionality added to portal.

• Messages tab provides access a list of the user’s messages.
• Messages in portal provide access to generated reports.

Back Office

Claims

9040

Fixed the claim issue that was incorrectly generating two procedures for a C-section (01968) performed by a single directed-only provider, where the case contains a separate direct-only provider on the Labor (01967).

9117

Fixed issue causing voided claims to not generate.

General

8091, 7732

Fixed issue causing cursor focus and tabbing issues on the Fee Schedule pages.

9315

Fixed issues requiring users to reset their passwords on subsequent logins after changing the password an initial time.

Image Viewer

9287

Fixed issue causing a java “not responding” message when opening the image viewer.

Paper Claims

5128

Fixed issue in Box 31 causing the Provider Name to be cut off at the 18^th character and rolling the last digit of the date into Box 32.

Reports

8809

Fixed issue that generated upon running the Charge Mix Trend Summary report and then rerunning it with no data.

Practices

8898

Fixed issue causing the address updated on the update tab (Practice: [name] / General Practice Information tab) to not be displayed on the Practices page.

Reports

8840

Fixed the issue causing inaccurate search results if executing the Production Analysis Summary Report and selecting a specific Facility in the search criteria.

Roles

9442

Fixed permissioning issue preventing users with Revenue Advantage view/update rights from accessing Revenue Advantage.

Portal

Dashboard

9161

Corrected formatting of dashboard widgets size to display appropriately when there is a large number of records.

9207

Fixed issue generating an error in the standard dashboards when a user did not have access to all widgets in the dashboard.