The latest BASCONNECT^TM release is 18.2. Highlights of this release include the following:

Accounts

• Distribute and Refund buttons have been disabled on the Account/Active AR tab if there is no money on the selected line item from OnAccount to distribute or refund.

Charge Batches

• Updating the Facility on a case no longer clears the procedure and provider time information.

Claims

• Functionality added for generating a Claim Inquiry Request and viewing Claim Status via two new tabs: 

• • Claims Inquiries

• • Claims Status

• Claims Inquiries checkbox added to Admin > Plan > Claims tab to designate if claim inquiries can be generated for a plan.

Denial Management

• Denial management functionality and user interface modified to include:

• • New Denial Code Groups to facilitate grouping of denial codes
  • New Primary and Non-Primary tabs added to the Denial Code page for creating primary and non-primary payment rules
  • Ability to include/exclude denial codes from denial code reports

External Collections

• New fields added to External Collections / Pending tab:
• Rendering Provider
• Referring Provider
• Date of Service

Fee Schedules

• New options added to the Method drop down list in the Time Unit Rounding section of the Fee Schedule/Anesthesia Billing Information tab: 
• Always round down
• Round up to the next 10th

General

• Home page can now be customized:
• Designate which Admin, Manage, and Security topics to display
• Identify which page(s) (up to three) automatically launch upon login to BASCONNECT
• Created By/At and Updated By/At fields display applicable information for scan batch pages in BASCONNECT

Image Batches

• Search button added to the Link functionality between image batches and Charge / Payment batches.

Outcomes

• Outcomes and AQI Reports topics moved under new Quality topic found in the Admin menu.
• Outcome Groups tab added to Quality topic to accommodate creation and management of Outcome Groups.

Payment Batches

• An expired collection agency can now be selected, if necessary, when creating an external collections payment.
• New Add Denial Codes pop-up window added to Insurance payment page to facilitate entry of denial codes.
• New fields added:
• Transaction Type on the create/update pages for Guarantor, Insurance, and Collections payments
• Transaction Type and Payment Type on the Payment Batch / Payment Batch Information tab
• Transaction Type and Payment Type on the Financial Activity Summary - Detail report for Payments - Line Items Detail and Payments - On Account Detail outputs

Preferences

• Image Batch Link Search Criteria section added to Image Batch tab to set default search criteria for searches.
• Case alert option on Preferences/Case tab updated to send alerts for patients under one year old.

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