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Click here! | H+Signature Scheduler Updates
| H+ Signature Scheduler releases regular updates to enhance features based on the feedback we provide. In the newest update, you may notice the following:
1. Added upload date to card scans in Patient Demographics
2. Balance and Copay in bold font on Detailed
schedule print out
3. Added "Other" phone number option to
New Patient Short Form
4. Changed "Print Followup" option from
"OK" and "Cancel" options to allow printing "Current
and Future", "Future Only", or "Full History" of
appointments for a patient
5. Added Cancel and Reschedule buttons to the Appointment Maintenance window
6. Curser now defaults to Patient Name rather than Account Number in New Patient Short Form since Account Number is auto-generated by
default
7. Minor bug fixes
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Greetings!
Please take a moment to read the following important updates.
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| Medicare Payments |
No matter what you read on the MSMS or CMS websites or what you
receive in your listserv emails, WPS Medicare - our Medicare carrier - has NOT
released any June payments.
That is not their "official" position but it is reality. This includes EFT payments scheduled for Friday, June 25th.
Many of our clients may soon be facing a cash flow crunch.
We will continue to keep you up to date as more information is known.
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Professional fee schedule revised effective July 1
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revised BCN professional fee schedule goes into effect July 1. The BCN Behavioral Health Services Fee Schedule is
not impacted
at this time.
Consultation codes no
longer reimbursed for commercial BCN members
As
part of the revised fee schedule update that goes into effect
July 1, 2010, Blue Care Network will no longer reimburse
consultation codes for commercial members. Procedure
codes *99241-*99245 and *99251-*99255 will be
denied as not payable services effective July 1, 2010.
All
consultation services should be reported with the following
evaluation and management codes: *99201-*99215,
*99221-*99223 and *99304-*99306, as
applicable.
Follow-up visits by the physician in the facility setting
should be billed as subsequent hospital care visits
for hospital inpatients and subsequent nursing
facility
care visits for patients in nursing facilities.
BCN Provider News, July-August 2010
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