Release Notes

Back Office

Accounts

6044

Added ability to copy Account Notes to clipboard for copying/pasting within Connect.

7514

New account search option added to Accounts page to only return accounts with a balance greater than zero.

7529

Added Claim Holds designation to Account/Active AR tab to easily identify cases in a held status.

11272

The Stop Pre-Coll button for an account in pre-collections now sends the account’s pre-collection code as SS (Suspend) in the Stop File, in place of CN (Cancel).

10957

Modified the External Collections tab header of an Account with an open external collection balance to display in red text.

10958

Guarantor’s Date of Birth field added to the Account / General tab.

11049

Added new window to display immediately with the ID of an account created via the File > New > Account process.

Charge Entry

11220

Functionality added to the Case / Procedures & Provider Time tab to allow selection of an alternate Expected Fee Schedule to override the default fee schedule.

Code Updates

11380

Added 2018 Q4 code updates (CPT, HCPCS, ICD-10, CCI v24.3, RVU 18D).

Collection Letters

10963

Collection Letters page search window updated to include Account ID field and reorganization of available search fields.

External Collections

5400

Added confirmation window to Post All functionality on the External Collection page.

10964

Modified the Pending and Transactions tab of the External Collections search windows:

• Pending Tab:
  • Added Account ID, Rendering Provider, and Referring Provider fields.
• Transactions Tab:
  • Added Agency field,
  • Updated Type field to Guarantor Type
  • Guarantor Last/First Name fields enabled when Guarantor Type = Person
  • Organization Name field enabled when Guarantor Type = Organization

General

10851

Updated export functionality via CTRL+SHIFT+X or CTRL+SHIFT+C to export the data in a number format, so further calculations, e.g., summing, can be executed in Excel.

Image Batches

10242

Added functionality to display Image Batch window when creating an Image Batch from a Charge Batch to allow users to update Image Batch details.

• Practice is auto-populated and disabled.
• Batch Type is auto-populated with Charge and disabled.

Password Policy

10979

Functionality added to disable a BASCONNECT user account after a designated number of days of inactivity.

• Disable account after ____ days of inactivity added to Security / Password Policy page.

Payment Entry

2222

New Payment button added to the Case / Procedures & Provider Time tab to enter payments.

• Button enabled once procedures have been entered.
• Check payment must be balanced in order to save the payment.
• New Cases – Payments permission added to grant users the permission necessary to add payments from the case.

5226

New Expected Fee Schedule drop down added to the Distribution page to designate and override the expected fee schedule for the insurance payment.

• Only active expected fee schedules associated to the practice are listed in the drop down.
• Expected fee schedules can also be edited on posted payments.

Payers & Plans

4020

Added new Bill CRNA Only option to the Plan / Anesthesia tab.

10962

Show Inactive checkbox added to Filters of the Payers & Plans page in order to hide payer child plans that are no longer active.

Practices

11343

Added the option to exclude accounts with statement holds from being included in the TSI Start File via the Practice / Pre-Collections tab.

Preferences

7000

Functionality added to Preferences / Image Batch to select a default Practice when creating an Image Batch.

10976

Added Launch Search option to Preferences / Statement Batch to auto-launch the Search Criteria window when opening the Statement Batches page.

Statement Batches

6071

Added ability to print preview statements in a preview window without marking the statements as printed.

Back Office & Portal

Reports

11330

Modified the Charge Analysis Detail report:

• Adjustments split into two columns: Adjustments – Negative, Adjustments – Positive.
• Reversals column changed to Reversals – All.
• Three new columns added:
  • Reversals – Insurance
  • Reversals – Guarantor
  • Reversals - Suspense
• Place of Service added to report output.

Back Office

Accounts

11370

Fixed the account search issues where the default practice was not matching the one set in the Preferences / Account, and the drop down to select a different practice was not enabled.

11512

Fixed functionality when performing View Attachment on an IPYMT (that does not already have an attachment) to create a new image batch.

Cases

11277

Fixed issue causing general procedure units to display incorrectly after recalculating the expected fee schedule.

11539

Fixed issue causing an NPE error when cloning an unsubmitted case within a batch.

Charge Entry

11165

Fixed issue causing Fee Calc on cases to display incorrect amounts when the case has a DR directing a Resident or SRNA.

Claims

11267

Fixed electronic claim page view to fit on the screen.

11524

Fixed print date/time on paper claims to print accurate value.

Collection Letters

11386

Fixed issue causing the Guarantor to not populate the Collection Letters page for cancelled claims.

Fee Schedules

11093

Modified logic of Description field of fee schedules to only allow 1000 characters.

Image Batches

11342

Fixed issue causing the Payment Batch ID or Charge Batch ID field to not populate when creating a payment or charge batch from an image batch

Payment Batches

9541

Fixed payment batch print functionality to keep non-posted payments from displaying as posted.

10613

Fixed the Under column of the Payment Exceptions Report to display a Total at the bottom.

11344

Fixed functionality for Recoup window to clear the form when entering recoup information and clicking Save & Add Next.

11382

Fixed functionality to not allow users utilizing hot keys to create duplicate payment batches from an image batch, which resulted in duplicate image sets and payment IDs in the Payment Batch / Image Batches tab.

Practices

11349

Added All search option for Practices in the Scan Batches, Image Batch / Charge Batches, and Image Batches / Payment Batches pages.

Quality

11484

Fixed AQI validation error resulting from outcome being set as a PQRS measure.

Refunds

11347

Fixed issue causing an error message when searching for refunds using custom dates and leaving a date field blank.

Reports

11487

Fixed issue causing Start Time, Stop Time, and Procedure Minutes from displaying on the Charge Analysis Detail report if the anesthesia case has anesthesia time for a directed CRNA only.