How do you know if a a number on a profile is a SSN or a profile number?
SSN starts with a 0 followed by 8 digits, profile number starts with a 1.
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M=married, D=divorced, s=single, W=widowed, X=separated, P=life partner
What are the possibilities for the first character of a financial class?
B=blue cross, M=medicare, X=medicaid, W=workman's comp, S=tricare/champus, C=commercial, P=private pay, and any other character is considered commercial.
What are the possibilities for the second and third characters of a financial class?
B=outpatient, S=swing, P=physician/1500, H=home health, EC=extended care, BR=recurring
What does M stand for?
medicare inpatient
What does XH stand for?
medicaid home health
What does DB2 stand for?
commercial outpatient
What does MC stand for?
medicare outpatient
What does ESC stand for on the insurance/claim screen?
employment status code
What is the patient portal authorized rep?
A person who can be given access to the online patient portal to view medical information about a patient.
How will you know if there are notes on a profile?
It will be notated in red at the top of the profile screen.
What does the visit history show?
All visits including old visits that have been purged from the account.
What are the stay types and which ones can change for each site?
1=inpatient (stays the same for all sites), 2=outpatient (stays the same for all sites), 3=ER patient (stays the same for most sites), 4=SNF patients (changes from site to site), and 5=clinic patients (changes from site to site)
What does SNF stand for?
skilled nursing facility, long term care
Which stay type(s) have subtypes?
inpatient only
Why are subtypes important?
For revenue purposes.
Under the stay tab, what does Room req mean?
Has the patient requested a room other than what's been given?
Under the stay tab, what does Pvt neces mean?
Is a private room necessary for the patient?
What does ABN stand for?
advanced beneficiary notice
What does HIE stand for?
health info exchange, can the patient's info be shared?
What are the admin codes?
NB=newborn, NBPRE=newborn premature, EMER=emergency, URPR=urgent procedure, URER=urgent emergency, ELPR=elective procedure
How do you admit an ER patient to a holding bed?
create new visit, stay tab, ADT functions, select admit and fill out info
How do you admit an O/P?
create new visit, stay tab, fill out admission info and discharge right after
What is the cycle code for recurring patients?
6
What is the cycle code for long term patients?
5
What is the MSP?
medicare questionnaire
How do you change an ER patient to an inpatient?
ADT functions, change stay type, ADT functions again, transfer (if they were in an ER room) or reverse admit (if they were not in a room), fill out new info, change stay type, subtype, and service code, change insurance to reflect inpatient
What extra prompt will you receive when you back out of a visit when registering an observation patient?
It will ask you if you want to post the observation charges.
What stay type do observation patients get admitted as?
stay type 2/outpatient
Where can you control how auto observation rounds the hour?
from hospital base menu, master selection, business office tables, business office table maintenance, AHIS, P8, mark auto obs field with Y (will round to the nearest hour) or N (will round to the next hour)
Where can you put in codes to identify observation patients?
from hospital base menu, master selection, business office tables, business office table maintenance, AHIS, P8
Where can you see/change the hourly observation rate for the first hour and following hours?
from hospital base menu, master selection, business office tables, business office table maintenance, AHIS, P8
How do you run a pre-admission report?
from hospital base menu, print reports, census, build daily files (build as current day), hit start, back to print reports, census, pre-admission
What does pre-admit delete do?
deletes any pre-admit accounts that don't have any activity
What are the three ways to create a temp. visit?
1) from hospital base menu, temp account reg
2) from profile, create temp visit
3) from hospital base menu, patient list, first time temp
How do you assign a patient number when creating a temp visit?
hit 1 and enter
What fields must be filled out for a temp reg?
name, sex, DOB, physician, patient type, and service code
How do you run a report that will identify temp accounts that need to be completed?
from hospital base menu, print reports, census, under temp reg choose build finder file as of today, print, back to hospital base menu, print reports, census, incomplete reg (this will show accounts that were registered as temp but do not have any charges)
What must be the same before merging profiles?
name, DOB, MRN, and guarantor
How do you merge profiles?
go into the profile that you are not keeping, change the name and DOB to be the same as the profile you want to keep, delete the MRN and guarantor off of both accounts, misc options, change SSN, match the one you're keeping from the other profile, hit enter and merging will happen, go back and add MRN and guarantor info, mass change MRN
How do you run an unapplied visits report?
from hospital base menu, print reports, medical records, admin tab, choose person profile maintenance and unapplied visits report
What does a data mismatch report do?
lists out visits where the data is different on the profile, specifically name and/or DOB
How do you run a report to see which profiles are linked?
from hospital base menu, print reports, census, select monthly misc tab, linked profiles
How do you run a report to see new profiles that have been created?
from hospital base menu, print reports, census, select monthly misc tab, new profiles, enter date range and print
What does all patients in the patient list show?
all accounts that have an AR balance or have not met the criteria to go to history
What does current patients in the patient list show?
patients without a discharge date, patients with a discharge date within past 3 days, and pre-admits with an expect date that has not exceeded 60 days
What does my patients in the patient list show?
a custom list created by each employee
What does MPI stand for and what does it show?
master patient index, includes any patient that has ever been registered at the hospital
What does CAH stand for?
critical access hospital
What does the CAH log show and where can it be found?
shows level of care changes, can be found under misc options on a visit
What effect will changing a synced field have on the patient's profile and the attached visits?
If a synced field is changed on the profile, it will change on all of the past visits and vice versa. [Show Less]