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I did something like this in a past life.... and after a process redesign, we discharged at the end of every year. You can control the Admit Date by using either a CDS for the original admit date, or use a unique entry in value codes or occurrence codes to capture the initial admit date, and in the claims override field 6A with this entry. We also used a unique Patient Class for these accounts in Abstracting, helped immensely with coding. Not sure if I can help w/Medicaid reimbursements, but yearly discharges are definitely the way to go. This does help with payments, as you'll only have 11 interim claims, and one final per year (so you'll need to correct TOB for this 'final' claim also). Hope this helps, Cindy Bodnar-Anderson IS, Senior Programmer/Analyst Regional Health Rapid City SD 57701 -----Original Message----- From: Marie Singleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 1:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MEDITECH-L] MAGIC BAR for Nursing Home use All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com ====================================== We are using the MAGIC BAR module for our Nursing Home facility & are running into several issues. The claims are billed on an interim basis, but some of the patients have been residents for 4+ years. We have accounts with 50+ interim bills & many of the accounts are a mess. We are aware of the C/S LTC module, but this is not an option financially. We considered discharging the accounts at the end of each year to reduce the number of bills on each account, but Medicare requires the admit date to be the date the patient was originally admitted (not the beginning of the year). There is also the issue of Medicaid reimbursement that changes each month. Any thoughts that you may have are welcome. Marie E. Singleton MIS Applications Analyst 770 304 4303 / ext 1883 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l ***Note: The information contained in this message, including any attachments, may be privileged, confidential, and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the Sender immediately by a "reply to sender only" message and destroy all electronic or paper copies of the communication, including any attachments. _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l
