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BARNEWS1 ; IHS/SD/LSL - NEWS ON CHANGES ;

 ;;1.8;IHS ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE;;OCT 26, 2005

 ;;

 D MAIL^BARMAIL("BAR","NEWS^BARNEWS1")

 Q

NEWS ;

 ;; 

 ;;1.  Parent Satellite file relationship start and end dates.

 ;; 

 ;;Background:

 ;; 

 ;;Satellites are moving out from under IHS parents as the 638 and self-

 ;;governance initiatives advance. Bills issued prior to or after the 

 ;;establishment must be kept with the appropriate affiliation.

 ;;Reloading or pulling up past bills must also be kept within the

 ;;proper affiliation.

 ;; 

 ;;Solution: Start and stop date fields have been added to the satellite 

 ;;definition within the Parent Satellite File of Accounts receivable.

 ;;The upload and reload coding has been changed to scan for the

 ;;appropriate parent according to the date of service of the bill.

 ;; 

 ;;2.  Bill items are to be resynchronized.

 ;; 

 ;;Background:

 ;; 

 ;;It has been found that items have come into A/R associated with the 

 ;;wrong bills or they are incomplete.

 ;; 

 ;;Solution:

 ;; 

 ;;When a bill has been edited in 3PB and/or when it is printed and/or

 ;;when it is reloaded the items within A/R are removed and the items

 ;;presented to A/R by 3PB at that time are loaded into the A/R tables.

 ;;This process will continue until the time when posting by items is

 ;;initiated or when the master integrated item file is distributed.

 ;; 

 ;;3.  Rollback to 3P bills that have been edited

 ;; 

 ;;Background:

 ;; 

 ;;3P hands to A/R the name and IEN of the 3P bills. However when a 3P

 ;;bill has been edited it changes its IEN.  A/R on a second submission

 ;;of a bill was coded to take it as the print cycle and did not change

 ;;any other fields.

 ;; 

 ;;Solution:

 ;; 

 ;;A/R now updates items, IEN, and other fields anytime 3P hands it a

 ;;bill.  The rollback command of the PAY option is now operational and

 ;;will tag a bill for rollback.  A site parameter controls whether a

 ;;rollback is to be accomplished within the posting or by the menu

 ;;option.

 ;; 

 ;;4.  Rollback breakout of payments, non-payments

 ;; 

 ;;Background:

 ;; 

 ;;3P originally wanted only the equivalent of an amount paid from A/R 

 ;;information to be used in preparing a secondary bill.  However this

 ;;put write off amounts in A/R as being reflected as payments in 3P.

 ;; 

 ;;Solution:

 ;; 

 ;;A/R now hands to 3P a complete breakout of the categories of

 ;;payments and adjustments from the history of the bill.

 ;; 

 ;;5.  Initial going live procedures being missed.

 ;; 

 ;;Background:

 ;; 

 ;;3P and A/R are integrated.  The installation instruction explained

 ;;that 3P approvals and printing of bills is to be stopped until A/R

 ;;is set-up.  Unfortunately, these instructions were not followed by

 ;;several sites.

 ;; 

 ;;Solution:

 ;; 

 ;;A new field has been added to the A/R Site Parameter file:

 ;;"ACCEPT 3P BILLS  Y/N".

 ;;This field will allow 3P to function as usual and bills will not

 ;;come into A/R until that field is set to YES.

 ;; 

 ;;6.  Standard Table Edit local numbering scheme

 ;; 

 ;;Background:

 ;; 

 ;;Sites have the ability to add 'Reasons' to their 'Categories' of

 ;;posting adjustments.  Their numbers are assigned automatically above

 ;;1000. Version 1.0,in error, allows the the end-user to edit the

 ;;centrally assigned reasons.

 ;; 

 ;;Solution:

 ;; 

 ;;Modify the code to only let them have access to the 'Reasons' they

 ;;have entered and not allow access to the centrally defined 'Reasons'.

 ;; 

 ;;7.  Batch Statistical Report

 ;; 

 ;;Background:

 ;; 

 ;;The 'BSL' accurately reports amounts posted to bills.  However, the 

 ;;balance left in the batch and what has been posted do not always

 ;;total to what was in the batch.  Money has been placed into

 ;;unallocated and or refunded throwing the balances off.

 ;; 

 ;;Solution:

 ;; 

 ;;The 'BSL' report has been modified to show 'unallocated' and

 ;;'refund' amounts so that proper balances may be obtained.

 ;; 

 ;;8.  Rollback Display of the bill's activity.

 ;; 

 ;;Background:

 ;; 

 ;;A/R had been coded to not display a bill's activity if it was 

 ;;evaluated that there were no secondary insurers on the bill.

 ;;There have been frequent instances where insurers have been added to

 ;;the patient record since the episode of care and other insurers do

 ;;exist.  The display is desired at all rollbacks.

 ;; 

 ;;Solution:

 ;; 

 ;;Disable the code that caused the skipping of the bill's activity. The

 ;;summary will appear on all bills that have amounts that can be given

 ;;to secondary insurers.

 ;; 

 ;;9.  Fractional Amounts

 ;; 

 ;;Background:

 ;; 

 ;;Prescription costs are computed on a table basis resulting in total 

 ;;costs that include fractional amounts.  Bills containing fractional

 ;;amounts cannot be posted to a zero balance.

 ;; 

 ;;Solution:

 ;; 

 ;;a.  Bill amounts received from 3P are rounded to the next cent.

 ;;b.  Item amount totals are now to be received from 3P rounded to

 ;;    the next cent.

 ;;c.  The reload of bills from 3P are rounded to the next cent.

 ;; 

 ;;10.  Provider file 6, 16, 200 resolution for Providers

 ;; 

 ;;Background:

 ;; 

 ;;The current release of RPMS has matched and merged the necessary

 ;;entries between the files.  Files 6,16 are to be discontinued.

 ;; 

 ;;Solution:

 ;; 

 ;;The pointers for 3P and A/R have been switched to use file 200.

 ;;This effects the provider entries in the A/R bills.

 ;; 

 ;;11.  Age Day Letter

 ;; 

 ;;Background:

 ;; 

 ;;Bills that have come to A/R with fractional amounts could never be

 ;;posted to zero balance and always appeared on the AGE Day Letter

 ;;report.

 ;; 

 ;;Solution:

 ;; 

 ;;Modify the code to ignore balances less than one cent.

 ;;Upload from 3P now rolls up fractional amounts to the next cent.

 ;;3P has also quit sending fractional amounts.

 ;; 

 ;;12.  Refunds not showing up on the monthly summaries.

 ;; 

 ;;Background:

 ;; 

 ;;The refund from an unallocated amount did set the transaction type to

 ;;refund but failed to set the category and did not request a reason. 

 ;;The refund from a bill set the category and reason but missed setting

 ;;the proper transaction type.

 ;; 

 ;;Solution:

 ;; 

 ;;The coding has been modified to perform refunds properly. Also, a

 ;;post init will be executed during the installation of version 1.1

 ;;which will collect the existing refund amounts from bills and 

 ;;unallocated accounts and place these amounts into the appropriate 

 ;;buckets.  

 ;; 

 ;;13.  Addition of two computed data fields.

 ;; 

 ;;1.  A/R Transactions file field P.A.R (Payment, Adjustments, Refund)

 ;;There are over 50 transaction types. The end-user has difficulty

 ;;separating those that are Payments, Adjustments, Refunds for their 

 ;;reports. This computed field returns a 1 if it is a transaction they 

 ;;want. Sort by //  'P.A.R>0

 ;; 

 ;;2.  A/R Accounts Insurer Type

 ;; 

 ;;The variable pointer was missing the link to the insurer file type 

 ;;field. This computed field was added to the data dictionary.

 ;; 

 ;;Although these fields have been added there is no reference to these 

 ;;fields in the current A/R software. They have been created to meet 

 ;;prominent deficiencies in the users ability to obtain their report 

 ;;requirements.

 ;; 

 ;;14. Some batch totals are found to be incorrect.

 ;; 

 ;;Background: 

 ;; 

 ;;The batches have not been keeping their totals properly.  The totals

 ;;are incorrectly calculated after an item is cancelled or edited.

 ;; 

 ;;Solution:

 ;; 

 ;;The appropriate trigger has been added tot he A/R COLLECTION BATCH 

 ;;dictionary and a post-init will be executed during the 1.1 install

 ;;which recalculates specific items in the batches.

 ;; 

 ;;15.  Error gets generated during the transfer of bills between

 ;;the A/R and 3P packages.

 ;;

 ;;Background: 

 ;; 

 ;;The items were being passed in a local array which can take up the

 ;;partition space.  The error would occur when a bill which a large

 ;;number of items was being passed between the packages.

 ;; 

 ;;Solution: 

 ;; 

 ;;A/R and 3P have been reprogrammed to pass the bill information inside

 ;;a temporary global so partition space is not used.

 ;; 

 ;;16.  Menu option VHF

 ;; View Host File has been added to the Manager menu.  The end-user

 ;; can now select an existing file from a directory and load it to the

 ;;Output Browser for full-screen viewing.

 ;; 

 ;; 

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