EMR Datacenter™ Release Notes

Appointment edit window - new appointments;

When adding a new appointment, the "Remarks" field has been modified to automatically inherit the remarks from the most recently established appointment.

Insurance payer preference;

A preference for "Box 31:  Include Provider State License #" has been added as a checkbox option.  By default, this should not be checked as the NUCC.org specifications for Box 31 does not include this state license number because of the specificity of the NPI numbers appropriately listed. 

Exceptions to the use of Box 31 still persist.  This option provides this ability to override the factory default NUCC.org specifications for the CMS-1500 08/05 form.

Appointment Reminders and Visitometer;

These routines have been made more strict to provide error handling and notification for invalid or excessive dates caused by typographical errors.

Claim attachment MyEMR notes: multi-facility printing

This has been modified to examine the local site folder for the ClaimAttachment.rtf prior to the ..\Common\Documents folder.

Statement text file output;

The patient statement application has been modified to produce a Statement.txt file within the site folder of the currently active site, for EDI processing availability.

Provider name & number aliases;

The provider catalog and insurance processing routines have been amended to include alias values for provider number and provider names, in enhanced support for multi-facility and multi-organization insurance billing.

MyEMR modality and EMR Datacenter macros;

The treatment plan modalities customization from within MyEMR's Tools->Customize->Plan->Modalities window has been modified so that there is strict coordination between the visibility of MyEMR modalities and the EMR Datacenter macros.

Suppressing the visbility of a MyEMR modality will suppress the corresponding macro in EMR Datacenter.

Choosing "Retrieve Deleted" in the customize area of MyEMR will recover all invisible (psuedo-deleted) modalities and macros.

Insurance: Line item posting print preferences;

In User Preferences, on the Insurance tab, the preference has been added to show or hide line item entries that have been paid or otherwise have $0.00 outstanding for that line item.

Payer number overrides;

Additional logic has been added for truncating soft carriage returns and leading spaces.

Medicaid preferences;

Preferences have been added for Box 32 to accomadate Medicaid locality preferences.

Time zone offset;

The front desk window and appointment book are modified to consider time zone offsets on a per user basis.

Payer ID field length in payer catalog;

This field has been expanded from 5 to 10 characters, in consideration of particular payers who require metatag data appended to the payer ID.

Insurance payer overrides;

The preference for box 30 to be blank has been implemented in the "provider/payer overrides" in the payer catalog.  The default setting is to print the amount due in box 30.  The checkbox in the overrides section causes box 30 to be blank.

This is effective for the CMS-1500 08/05 form only.  It is not necessary for electronic billing.

NYC4 form

Additional user preferences have been added in support of the NYC4 form.

Check-in table refresh;

The Check-in table refresh algorithm has been modified for a more efficient SQL "ORDER BY" clause.