April 2024 Release Notes

13.5.0.3 - April 30, 2024

New

• Billing: We’ve added the ability to include additional Clinical Providers in Box 19 for grouped billable items in CollaborateMD.

Fixed

• Evaluations: Fixed an issue where the Add Document modal would pop up when a user attempted to leave the page while data was still saving.
• Facesheet: Users no longer need to refresh the page during patient creation to select dates on the facesheet (e.g. Date of Birth, Sobriety Date, etc.).

13.5.0.2 - April 24, 2024

New

• Security/Login: We have added a login option that allows users to securely re-authenticate (by entering their email and password) if their session times out before saving their work.

Fixed

• Billing: Fixed an issue causing the LOC Type to incorrectly update to Inpatient/Attendance Based.
• Billing: The POA default value enhancement will no longer incorrectly add values by default for institutional outpatient claims.
• eRx (DrFirst): Fixed an issue where DrFirst user roles didn't save when two last names were entered in a user profile.
• Physician Review: Fixed an issue where some providers received a spinning wheel when trying to sign orders from the Physician Review dashboard. 

13.5.0.1 - April 22, 2024

Fixed

• Billing: Fixed an issue causing Diagnosis Code LOC Defaults to sporadically appear in an unsupported format for transmission.
• Billing: Fixed a rare issue that caused an unbilled item to be out of sync with the program history when deleting programs from the program history.
• eRx(DrFirst): Fixed an issue where the status of medications stopped during medication reconciliation in Rcopia did not update to Discontinued in Kipu. Medication statuses will now be updated to Discontinued in Kipu.
• Patient Evaluations: Enhanced stability of patient evaluations to reduce errors when receiving data in unexpected formats.
• Portal Documents: Fixed an issue where Portal users couldn’t edit the Autocomplete field in My Documents, and were logged out of their portal account after they tried. The fix lets users fill it out in shareable evaluation forms.
• Rounds: Fixed an issue where the Rounds tab timed out for patients with a large number of observations.

13.5.0.0 - April 17, 2024

New

• API: New endpoints are being added to the Kipu API to create an index of outcomes measures.
• API: The Kipu API can now index outcomes measures by patient.
• Billing: The Payor Settings configuration now will record the name of the last person who made an edit to a specific row together with the edit's date and time. Click here for more information on adding and editing payors.
• Billing: Updated the Payor Settings to be location-specific. Click here for more information on adding and editing payors. 
• Billing: Specific ancillary evaluation templates can be configured with a default ancillary Konnector to automate the biller’s workflow if there is an ancillary service that always needs to be re-routed to a different destination in CMD/Avea. Click here for information on billable ancillary evaluation templates and here for information on ancillary konnectors
• Billing: Updated the insurance search on the facesheet so that it correctly returns location-specific search results.
• Billing: You can now manually edit the Type of Bill field on the billing report. For more information on billing reports, click here. 
• Billing: A new error message has been implemented on the billing report to catch documentation mistakes when a patient is marked with an insurance payment method but has no insurance documented. Unbilled items will now display an error with the message that insurance is missing on this date. This error can be turned into a warning or disabled in Settings > Billing > Warnings and Errors, instructions for which can be found here.
• Billing: Made minor performance enhancements to the billing report, including updating the grouping logic of the report to factor in the place of service This is part of an ongoing project to improve performance. 
• Billing: Added the ability to create a Per Diem Service so that daily billable items can be generated in the billing report without triggering documentation for items such as a Room and Board charge. Check out this article for information on setting up a per diem service. 
• PDF: You can customize the patient information so that it is displayed at the top of every page in the PDF. Super admins can include the patient’s date of birth, birth sex, active insurance name, and policy number in addition to the default full name and MR number by navigating to Settings > Instance, then clicking on PDF and making the desired selections. Click here for more information.
  • Note: This setting applies to both PDF packages/casefiles and PDFs in all locations.
• Portal: Improved the Next Appointment section layout for mobile users.

Fixed

• Billing: Fixed a rare issue that prevented users from editing existing payor rules.
• Doctor's Orders: Resolved an issue where text from the Status column overlapped with the Inventory column in an order.
• eRx Rcopia: Fixed an issue where some prescriptions appeared twice in the EMR.
• Med Log Report: Fixed an issue where quantities lower than a decimal were incorrectly rounded down to zero in the quantity column of the Med Log report.
• Occupancy: Improved performance in the Occupancy tab to resolve latency issues and 504 errors.
• Patient Evaluations: Enhanced stability of patient evaluations to reduce errors when receiving data in unexpected formats.
• Scheduled Reports: Fixed an issue where the Group Session report did not generate via Scheduled Reports.
• Users: Fixed an issue where the navigation bar covered Locations, Notifications, and User Menu panels for ePrescribe providers (users were not able to see or select All Locations from the location picker).

13.4.0.5 - April 11, 2024

• Users: Fixed an issue where the navigation bar was covering Locations, Notifications, and User Menu panels for ePrescribe providers (users were not able to see or select All Locations from the location picker)

13.4.0.4 - April 8, 2024

Fixed

• Calendar: Fixed an issue where users could not open the Personal Settings menu in Calendar.
• Calendar: Fixed an issue where the Export to Excel functionality did not work as expected.

13.4.0.3 - April 4, 2024

New

• Billing: When billable items are transmitted from integrated billing to Collaborate MD, the system will automatically assume that the code, or codes, were present on admission (POA). Now, instead of having to mark items as POA, users will only have to unmark the option when the diagnosis codes are not present.

Fixed

• Billing: Fixed an issue where the excluded diagnosis codes were not being correctly excluded when transmitting a billable item for customers using CMD.
• Billing: Fixed an issue for clients who use the warnings and errors and MAT billing payor rules features that caused the billing report to run slower than normal.
• Billing: Fixed an issue that prevented a user from removing an item from the Do Not Bill report if that item included a Vitals attachment.
• Disabling Schedule Templates: Fixed a bug where users couldn’t disable Schedule Templates that didn't have active clients assigned.
• Print/PDF/Fax: Fixed an issue where the font size of information sent to print/PDF/FAX was too small.
• User profiles: Fixed an issue where disabling some users caused a 500 error.

Scheduler Release 1.8.0 - April 4, 2024

New

• Better group session leader visibility on Scheduler and the BI Dashboard: When updating the group session leader in group notes, the updated information will now also appear on the corresponding Group Session Appointment card on Scheduler, on exports from Scheduler, and the Scheduler - Appointments dashboard in the BI Reports. This behavior will allow users to see the appointments assigned to the correct resources without updating the group session templates. For a walkthrough of the Group Session card click here.
• Changes made to the automatic assignment of resource schedules in single instances: In single instances, Provider users will only have resource schedules automatically assigned to them when Scheduler is enabled if they have at least one location assigned. This change addresses data issues created when a user doesn’t have a location assigned to their user profile in a single instance. For instructions on assigning a resource schedule, click here.
• Drop and edit group session schedules and ad hoc sessions with fewer clicks: With the newly added Assigned Sessions link on the patient chart, users can view, edit, and drop group session schedules and ad hoc sessions with just a few clicks. This option will save time and confusion as we separate each schedule and ad hoc session into a new view on the patient chart. For more information, check out this article.

• Group session schedules viewable from the patient chart by non-Scheduler users: The new Assigned Sessions button on the patient chart view of Scheduler will allow the user to see all the assigned Group Session Schedules and/or Ad Hoc Group Sessions. They will also be able to print the Group Sessions assigned. 

• Enhanced group session assignment history: Scheduler will now house more data for the Group Session history so that any changes made to Group Session Schedules and Ad Hoc Group Sessions will no longer affect the Appointment Status.

Fixed

• Manual Appointment Communication Send: Fixed an issue where the appointment communication templates didn’t populate on the Communication tab.

13.4.0.2 - April 2, 2024

Fixed

• Billing: Fixed an issue for customers using the warnings and errors feature that sometimes allowed a red dot error to be selected. These selections errored out in the batch report. These selections will be sent back to the unbilled report. 
• Billing: Fixed an issue that caused institutional claims with a single diagnosis code to error out and not successfully transmit for customers using CMD. Kipu will automatically retrigger these items periodically. Please contact support if you encounter any persisting stuck or failed items.