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Rich, We are 5.5 MAGIC and also use Client routine quite a bit. I agree that MT completely broke this rather than make it better. I can only offer this one piece of help. You CAN demand a second bill with the same date range as a previous bill (you will get a soft warning, but can enter past). This is how we are dealing with our "lost charges". We then hand write on the bill when it prints something like "late charges not previously billed" so the SNF knows why they are getting another January bill. Hope that helps. Amber Holcombe B/AR Analyst, Patient Accounts Olympic Medical Center -----Original Message----- From: Rich Griffith Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 6:28 AM Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] CS BAR 5.5 Clients 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] _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l
