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Welcome
to the inaugural issue of the QuickCare eNewsletter from MDI Achieve.
This newsletter will be our primary method of communication with
you, our valued clients. It can be delivered directly to your Inbox
or accessed from our website. Feel free to pass it along to your
co-workers who use QuickCare software as well. With each issue,
our goal is to provide you with valuable information about QuickCare
software, our company and the eldercare industry. Your comments
and suggestions are always welcome.
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Important
News from CMS
NPI and Dual
vs NPI Billing
CMS has announced
that the NPI MUST be submitted for the Billing and Pay-To Providers
as of January 1, 2008. The secondary providers (Physicians) can
still submit Legacy Only.
- Please
remember to switch your Medicare A / B intermediaries to Dual
or NPI Only mode.
- In the
3.4 release, to accommodate a physician with only a Legacy ID,
you will need to have your intermediary set at Dual mode.
- You
will still need to override the validations, but the ANSI
will build correctly.
- Validations
were kept in place to provide a way for users to track the
physicians whose NPIs are missing.
- The
NPI Only mode will not accommodate the Legacy IDs. This
format should be used once you have obtained NPIs from all
of your physicians.
CMS Annual
Physician Fee Schedule
The
new 2008 Physician Fee Schedule is available from the CMS Website
at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/PhysicianFeeSched/PFSCSF/list.asp.
Be sure to use
your state specific fee schedule to update your rates. Use
the Item Charge Update Tool available under System Maintenance to
import the new rates.
If you need
assistance with this, please contact Support.
Medicare
A Co-Insurance Rate Change
The Medicare A Co-Insurance rate will be $128.00 for the 2008
calendar year. QuickCare
will automatically update this rate with the 3.4 release. If
you need to have the new rate prior to installing the 3.4 release,
you may enter it in the QuickCare system manually. The update
will not duplicate the rate.
For
more information, please visit the CMS website at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/apps/media/fact_sheets.asp.
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MDI Achieve Completes Microsoft Gold Partner
Certification Renewal
We are proud
to announce that MDI Achieve recently completed the renewal of our
Microsoft Gold Partner certification as part of our continuing efforts
to improve our products and services. This process required that
current MDI software users provide feedback via Microsoft's Client
Satisfaction Survey. We extend our thanks to the many customers
who completed the survey, as well as our staff who maintained high
levels of certification, to make this possible.
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Coming
Soon! QuickCare Version 3.4
QuickCare Version
3.4 is on schedule to be released February 11, 2008. Here's a sneak
preview highlighting just a few of the new features:
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Enterprise
My Reports - You will see a new My Reports tab beside the Calendar
tab that allows you to schedule the Enterprise reports that
you routinely run. Reports can be set up to run daily, weekly,
monthly, or even annually. Your preferences are saved so you
do not have to choose them each time you run the report.
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Accounts
Receivable
Generic 837I - There is a new Intermediary available in Payor
setup that can be used with all Payor categories. This option
validates associated claims for all HIPAA required fields, allowing
you to submit a UB04 in a standard 837I file.
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UB04
Conversion
Programming has been completed for claim creation and validation
for Alabama Medicaid as well as Arkansas, SPSI Mercy Care, and
AHCCCS for Arizona Medicaid, Colorado, Iowa, Idaho, Louisiana,
New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin.
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Point of Care
The rewritten Point of Care application has a brand new
look and it is more than just a new user interface! New features
have been added, such as:
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'Off-line' functionality: If the kiosk is disconnected from
the QuickCare database, you can still record entries in
Point of Care. When a connection is re-established with
QuickCare, the data is automatically synchronized. No more
down-time!
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Biometric login: Eliminate the need to enter your username
and password by using a simple finger scan. Our new POC
login steps you through a simple setup for recording a user's
fingerprint image. This image is encrypted and stored so
the next time you log in, you can just press your finger
on the reader to log in. Very secure!
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"New
in this Release" Web-Based Training Scheduled
Please plan to
attend one of our web-based training sessions to learn all about
the new features and issues resolved in V3.4., designed to provide
detail and inform you of changes made to QuickCARE.
For
a complete list of the dates and times of these sessions, please
visit the Training page on our website at http://www.quickcare.com/training_product.asp.
When
that date and time arrives, simply copy and paste the website link
into your web browser. Follow the instructions on the screen and
you will be ready to attend. The dial-in conference call information
and meeting access codes are provided with the schedule. If you
have any questions, please contact Kimberley Reeves at 800-259-7633
ext. 1418.
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