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Lynn: We have now been live with 5.5 Magic and we use the client billing routines extensively for corporate health and skilled nursing facility clients. Although we are Magic, and you are C/S, my understanding is that the changes are nearly the same on both platforms. In our opinion, they took something that was working reasonably well, and broke it completely! On the surface, the ability to define client billing groups seemed like a very positive change. That is ok, but the real change that surprised us is the fact that everything is driven by service date, not transaction date. When you run a cut-bills, you do it for a range of service dates. The problem is that if there are additional charges that are added for that service date after the cutoff date, they will not be included the next time you cut bills, because their service date is not in the range of dates you are now compiling. Your choices are: 1) delay your cut-bills run a number of days, to be reasonably certain you are capturing all the charges for your range of service dates (and thereby delaying your bills, and extending days in A/R), or 2) cut your bills early after the period ends, and then sometime later run the "missed bills" report to find out what you missed. I am still somewhat at a loss to figure out what to do with those missed bills to get them onto a bill to the client. I hope if anyone out there in L-land has found ways to make this work reasonably well, they will help the rest of us. Meditech will be having an online seminar on the client billing changes (for both Magic and C/S) on June 13th, and we will be listening to that. So far, our B/AR consultant and her supervisor have been of very little help, and it is my belief that they (and perhaps all of Meditech) have no idea how client billing ought to work. Rich Griffith Coordinator, Info Mgmt, QM & Compliance Hagerstown Medical Laboratory Washington County Health System Voice: 301-665-4906 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shugrue, Lynn Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 3:49 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Nelson, Mike Subject: [MEDITECH-L] CS BAR 5.5 Clients All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com ====================================== Hi All, I've seen it mentioned before on the L that some sites are noticing problems with the Client enhancements in 5.5. Does anyone have any specifics? So far in our testing we haven't noticed any problems and I'm afraid we're missing something. I saw one person mention that they delayed their Live date because of it. Does anyone have any specific bugs they could share so we can keep an eye out? Thanks! Lynn Shugrue Financial Analyst Yampa Valley Medical Center Steamboat Springs, CO 970/875-2755 _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l ***** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ***** This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l
