July 2025 Release Notes

14.46.0.0 - July 31, 2025

New

• Billing: Customers using CMD can now click on the Unique Patient ID on the EMR facesheet and be taken directly to the patient in CMD. Additionally, users reviewing transmitted billing items from the EMR can now click on Claim IDs to navigate directly to the claim in CMD (you must be logged into CMD before clicking the link). For more information on the CMD konnector, check out this article.
• Billing: Guarantor information will now be included in facesheet pushes. For more information on billing-related guarantor behavior, click here.

Fixed

• Billing: Fixed an issue that accidentally added the Patient MRN to the Patient Name column in billable report exports.

14.45.0.0 - July 29, 2025

New

• Billing: Added the ability to remove all items in the Error status when viewing a batch. For more information on sending integrated billing charges, check out this article.
• Billing: Ensured that the Download HL7 button for batch transmissions reappears if users remove all errored items and the batch status changes from Error to Completed. For more information on sending integrated billing charges, check out this article.
• Billing: Added a new payer rule that allows billers to configure specific payers to bundle services weekly. For these payers, we also added the option to define a minimum required hours and a minimum count of services for the week that must be met before the bundle code applies. Lastly, we added an exception bundling option, which allows items to remain bundled as an exception even if the requirements were not met. Check out this article for more information.
• Billing: Added the ability to copy an existing provider setting and search by provider or sequence ID in Settings > Billing > Provider Settings. Check out the Provider Settings article here.
• Billing: Added the ability to map CMD providers in the EMR for locations that do not have Billing by Program or Billing by Building enabled by using the provider’s CMD Sequence ID under Settings > Billing > Billing Providers. Check out the Provider Settings article here.

• Billing: Users can now configure a new notification for integrated billing batch transmissions that triggers a notification and email when a batch contains at least one item that did not successfully transmit to CMD or the Kipu RCM. For more information on notifications, check out this article.

• Billing: Added support for mapping Relative guarantor relationships in the integrated billing CMD integration. Check out this article for updated abbreviations.
• Group Sessions: Added a link to the group session note in the patient’s chart to the read view of the full group session in Schedules. For more information on the Group Sessions tab in the patient chart, click here.
  
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Fixed

• Billing: Fixed a time zone issue where sometimes a billable item would show a false warning that the item occurred before the admission date/time.
• Labs: Fixed an alignment issue on Labcorp requisitions where sticky label text was shifting too far to the left, causing misalignment with the peelable label slots.
• Labs: Fixed an issue where the print dialog for LabCorp requisitions kept appearing even after the user refreshed the page.
• MAT Inventory: Fixed an issue where bottles at certain locations could not be transferred to other locations.

14.44.0.0 - July 24, 2025

New

• Billing: Updated the expanded view group session Provider label to Group Session Leader for accuracy.
• Billing: Updated the order of the tabs in Settings and moved the Payers and Billing tabs to be next to each other, after the Konnectors tab.
• Billing: Added the ability under Customize Billing Report to toggle patient sorting by last name, first name middle name (aka. Doe, Jane Elizabeth) or first name, middle name, last name (aka. Jane Elizabeth Doe) in the Billing Report. Exported Billing Reports will also reflect the chosen patient sorting. Check out this article for more information.
  
• MAT Log: Users can now add comments to multiple MAT log entries at once using the new Bulk Edit Comments option. Check out this article for more information.

Fixed

• PDF/Casefiles: Improved casefile and PDF generation to reduce the likelihood of files getting stuck in the Generating status.

14.43.0.0 - July 22, 2025

New

• Group Session Instance Settings: We have added a new Instance Setting that shows incomplete group sessions in the patient chart, PDF packages, and casefiles. When the new Show Incomplete Group Sessions in Chart setting is enabled, the following elements will be available. Click here for more information on Instance Settings.
  • Group sessions with the In Progress or Pending Review statuses will appear in the patient’s chart in the Group Session tab. We have also updated the notes layout in this view. For more information on the Group Session tab, check out this article.
  • Group sessions in the In Progress or Pending Review statuses will appear in the patient’s chart under the Chart Summary tab. Check out this article for more information on the Chart Summary tab.
  • Users can include pending and in-progress group sessions in PDF packages and casefiles by selecting Include Pending Items. For information on PDF packages, check out this article, and for information on casefiles, click here.

Fixed

• Billing: Fixed an issue where the session group leader was sometimes not used as the billing provider for group session billable items when using the Same Signer Level of Care workflows.

2.8 Scheduler Release - July 22, 2025

New Appointment Availability Public API Feature

We're excited to announce the launch of our new Appointment Availability Public API, which will give authorized clients powerful scheduling integration capabilities.

What's New: The Appointment Availability API allows seamless integration of scheduling functionality into our clients' own websites and applications as long as resource schedules have been enabled and set up in Scheduler.

Key Features:

• Real-time availability: View all open time slots for each provider
• Self-scheduling support: Perfect for clients offering patient self-scheduling through their own platforms
• Appointment booking: API callbacks allow direct appointment placement in Scheduler when patients select their preferred time slot

Who Can Use This: Available to all clients with existing access to Kipu's public APIs.

Getting Started: Contact your account manager or check our API documentation for implementation details.

New

• Appointment Notes: Added verbiage to the current appointment notes permission in the Scheduler Preferences tab to allow Appointment Notes to appear in the Appointments section of the Portal. Check out the Scheduler Preferences tab here.
• Appointment Status Settings UI Modernization: As part of modernizing the Scheduler code and UI, we have updated the Appointment Status Settings screen. The main change users will see is that the edit action icon will now persist on each row. For more information on appointment statuses click here.
• Schedule Templates List View UI Modernization: As part of modernizing the Scheduler code and UI, we have updated the Schedule Templates list view screen. The main change users will see is that the action icons (Copy, Edit, and Delete) will now persist on each row. Check out this article for more information on Schedule Templates.

Fixed

• Appointment Communication: Fixed an issue where Group Session Appointment Communications text messages sometimes duplicated the same communication.
• Resource Schedules: Fixed an issue where locations removed from a Resource Schedule still appeared when the Resource was selected, making it look like the Resource was available to book an appointment for that location.

14.42.0.0 - July 17, 2025

New

• Billing: We have updated the status field behavior in batch billing transmission reports. Now, when all errors in a batch have been removed, the batch status will change to Completed instead of remaining in the Error status. 

14.41.0.1 - July 16, 2025

Fixed

• Inventory: Resolved an issue where inventory details didn't appear in Facility and Patient Inventory views. Inventory data now displays as expected.

14.41.0.0 - July 15, 2025

New

• Billing: Updated the UI label of Billing Type in billing settings to Interface Type to more accurately describe the setting.
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• Billing: MAT Billing customers in Arizona can now send the box 19 dispensing clinical provider on dosing services when MAT Dosing Service is set as the classification and Dispensing Provider is chosen as the clinical provider in Settings > Billing > Services. For more information,  check out the MAT Dosing Service section of this article.

• Consent & Evaluation Templates: We have improved the import process for consent and evaluation template forms so that multiple users in the same instance can import forms simultaneously (although each user must still only import one template at a time).

• Doctor’s Orders: A new End Date field is now available in Doctor’s Orders. For more information on End Date behavior and on Doctor's Orders, check out this article.

Fixed

• Billing: Fixed an issue for the batch report where it would return batches that included items from the date parameter instead of using only the batch created date.
• Doctor’s Orders: Fixed an issue where the generic name for a medication repeated in the order name.
• Instance Settings: Fixed an issue where custom Care Team Functions weren’t displaying capital letters as detailed in settings.
• Labs: Fixed an issue where some lab results were missing their PDF version.

14.40.1.0 - July 10, 2025

New

• Labs: Updated patient demographic fields in Labs Reports to match the labeling used across Kipu. For more information about lab reports in general, check out this article. For more on Labcorp reports, click here.
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Fixed

• Billing: Fixed an issue where users could not open the hyperlink for group sessions in the Do Not Bill report.

14.40.0.0 - July 8, 2025

New

• Billing: Added additional stability measures to batch transmissions that should reduce the number of interrupted batches.
• Billing: To preserve data integrity, CMD, RCM, and Upload to File Server konnectors that have been used for transmission on non-deleted patients can now only be disabled instead of deleted.
• Billing: Enhanced error messaging to notify users if konnectors have been disabled for HL7 Upload to SFTP Konnectors on patient facesheets.
• Billing: For integrated billing batch transmissions, the HL7 file will now include the GT1 segment, which houses guarantor information. Check out this article for a detailed walkthrough.
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• Labs: Primary and secondary insurance selections from the Lab Testing section now work for all labs. If both are left unassigned, the system will continue using all active insurances entered on the facesheet. 

Fixed

• Billing: Fixed an issue where the discharge date sometimes wasn’t included in the file for integrated billing customers sending patient demographic information via the facesheet.
• Billing: Fixed an issue experienced by MAT Billing customers where the weekly included services were not bundled properly based on the configurations in the payer rules.
• Forms and Evaluations: Resolved an issue where the Review Signature could not be applied to a form created from a copied template where signature requirements had changed.
• Labs: Fixed an issue where users couldn’t create a lab order if allergies were missing from the facesheet, and no error message was shown. Users can now create a lab order without specifying allergies (allergies are still required for sending a requisition).
• MAT Orders: Fixed an issue that prevented the Add Doses order from being created when a patient had a Special Take Out order dispensed.
• Rounds: Resolved an issue where round statuses would not update to Complete when the round template is deleted.

14.39.0.0 - July 1, 2025

New

• Doctor's Orders: There is a new setting in Settings > ePrescribe > Location Settings that allows users to review and confirm that orders are stopped in Rcopia from the Medication Reconciliation page should actually be stopped. You can find the setting here, and instructions on how the feature works here.
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  • Doctor's Orders tab:
• Doctor’s Orders: We have improved the handling of frequency information when orders are transmitted to Rcopia as split prescriptions.
• Doctor Orders: The Updated Dispense Amount setting is now available under Settings > Instance. When enabled, medications with available packaging options will appear in the Dispense Amount field, along with a new Day Supply field for improved dispense amount information. For information on eRx orders click here, for custom orders click here, and for quick orders click here.
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  • Order window: