January 2025 Release Notes

14.5.0.0 - January 31, 2025

This release is being deployed to clients in stages and may not be available in your instance at this time.

New

• Billing: When reviewing expanded billing items, the place of service value will now also display the codified value for ease of use. For more information on billing reports, check out this article.
• Billing: Customers using the new Per Diem Service classification can set a default Type of Bill value in Settings which will be used automatically. Click here for instructions on creating per diem services.
• Billing: When selecting a level of care, the value entered in the Hours per Day field will automatically display in the billing item to match the workflow of other fields like days of the week for a consistent experience. For more information on assigning levels of care, click here.
• Billing: Changed Concurrent Reviews section to Utilization Reviews to better reflect the category, and tweaked changed the Add Review button Add LOC Review to be more specific. For more information, check out this article.

• Billing Payor Settings: We’ve added insurance address information fields to the payor library so that addresses can be included on the facesheet by default for clients using labs. This update eliminates the address addition step, so that users only need to make changes when the address is not correct by default.

• Billing: Updated insurance nomenclature on the facesheet and in settings to improve consistency across the application.

Fixed

• Doctor Orders: Fixed an issue where the order number from Rcopia didn’t display after a medication was discontinued.

14.4.0.0 - January 28, 2024

This release is being deployed to clients in stages and may not be available in your instance at this time.

Fixed

• Doctors Orders: Fixed an issue where pending orders deleted in Rcopia still appeared in the Doctors Orders tab.
• MAR/Med Log: Fixed a time zone issue that resulted in a date warning in the MAR/Med Log.

14.3.0.0 - January 23, 2025

New

• Billing: Updated the Claims labels in the Billed, Do Not Bill, and Batches views so that they more accurately represent the billed items. For more information on batch reports, check out this article.
• Billing: Added filtering capabilities to the Billed and Do Not Bill tabs in the patient’s chart which will reduce navigation time by allowing users to easily filter by the items they’re looking for. For more information on batch reports, check out this article.
• Billing: Added the ability to auto-select individual billing codes per patient based on individual duration in Group Session documentation. For more information on Group Session documentation, check out this article.
• Billing: Added the ability to select individual billing codes for each patient in Group Session documentation. For more information on Group Session documentation, check out this article.

Fixed

• Billing: Fixed an issue that caused the billing report to not load due to a blank payer rule.
• MAT Phases Report: Fixed an issue where no results were generated when selecting an End Phase in the report’s criteria.

14.2.0.0 - January 21, 2025

New

• Billing: Users will now see a list of locations or programs when they hover over All Selected in the Location and Program columns in the Konnectors view to improve efficiency.

• Billing: Updated the default options under Relationship of patient to subscriber in Settings. For more information, check out this article.
  

• Billing: Updated default list of options under Insurance Plan Types in Settings. For more information, check out this article.
  
• Billing: Updated evaluation template behavior so that the evaluation_date field type option is disabled when the template is marked billable. This change will prevent issues where the evaluation start time occurred before the patient’s admission time. The recommended field types are evaluation_datetime or evaluation_start_and_end_time. For more information on evaluation templates, check out this article. 
• Labs: Enabled the Location column in the Labs tab for all instances (previously, this feature was available for some clients only).
  • It can be enabled or disabled under Settings > Patients/Clients. 
• Max Daily Dose: Users can now add a maximum daily dose for each medication, restricting future administrations in the MAR once the maximum dose has been reached. For instructions on using Max Daily Dose click here for eRx/Rcopia orders, here for quick orders, and here for custom orders. For more information on the MAR/Med Log tab click here.

Fixed

• Billing: Fixed an issue that caused the same signer billing provider not to display for level of care per diem billable items triggered by group sessions.
• Dashboard: Fixed a pagination issue that occurred when signing orders on the last page.
• Labs: Fixed an issue where users could not open some older Lab Requisitions and got an error message.
• Labs: Fixed an issue where Primary Insurance in the Lab Testing section switched to Unassigned if the user edited the patient’s facesheet (the issue affected KipuRCM, fka   Avea, clients only).

14.1.0.0 - January 16, 2025

New

• PDF Packages: We have added the ability to include or exclude specific items on PDF packages and reorder items so that you can customize your content according to your needs. For more information on PDF packages click here. You can enable or disable this feature under Settings > Instance.
• Settings/Restore: Added a Search field to the Restore tab for Patients, Patient Evaluations, Patient Consent Forms, Evaluation Templates, and Consent Form Templates. For more information on restoring items, check out this article.

Fixed

• Treatment Plans: Fixed an issue causing linked interventions not to load after adding their parent objective.
• Users: Fixed an issue where users were still able to update their own email while the "Allow users to update profile demographics" setting was turned off.

14.0.2.0 - January 14, 2025

New 

• Billing: Updated the hyperlink found in the Status column for Billed and Do Not Bill reports so that it opens a new tab instead of navigating to a new window. This change makes it easier for users to return to their original task, increasing efficiency. For more information on the billing reports, check out this article.
• Billing: Updated the Admit to Discharge payor rule that previously only worked for inpatient and attendance-based billing types so that it also works for Per Diem Service billing types. This enhancement will allow more clients to use the Admit to Discharge workflows, reducing the amount of data review required. Check out this article for more information. 
• Billing: Added logic for customers using the RCM (Avea) integration so that insurance status in the EMR updates in real time instead of overnight, reducing confusion. For instructions on changing the insurance status, click here.

Fixed

• Casefile: Fixed an issue where an error occurred when users attempted to download files generated from casefile.

14.0.1.0 - January 9, 2025

Fixed

• Billing: Fixed an issue where the system did not properly remove unbilled items triggered for MARs/vitals when a new level of care that doesn’t support MARs/vitals billing was created with a backdated start date.

14.0.0.0 - January 7, 2025 

New

• Billing: Updated grouping logic to retain values when clicking Save and Continue on the Billing Report.
• Billing: Added a new payor rule type that allows selected codes to auto-transmit their billable items to the Do Not Bill tab. For more information, check out this article. 

Fixed

• Attendance: Improved the loading speed of the Schedules > Attendance tab and added pagination to address errors experienced when trying to access the tab.
• Billing: Fixed an issue that sometimes caused external app unique IDs to not generate on the facesheet.
• Billing: Fixed an issue that sometimes caused user information not to update in external app timestamps on the facesheet.
• Billing: Fixed an issue that sometimes caused incorrect external app timestamps on the facesheet.
• Billing: Fixed an issue that sometimes made the Upload to file server external app button disappear from the facesheet.
• Billing: Fixed an issue where the system did not properly remove unbilled items generated without documentation when a new level of care was created with a backdated start date that did require documentation. This issue occurred on billable items where the documentation requirement was disabled and the patient’s payment method was Private Pay.
• Doctor Orders: Fixed an issue where users could not scroll in the Order screen.
• MAT Call Backs: Fixed an issue where the Current Census and Past Call Backs tabs under Schedules > Call Backs did not load properly.
• MAT Flags: Fixed an issue where No Show flags didn’t generate properly after a clinic closed.
• Reports: Fixed an issue where the time no longer appeared with the date in the Updated At column in authorizations reports.