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Fee Increase Not Updating Exsisting Patients. 
Posted: 17 January 2008 01:12 PM   [ Ignore ]  
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Starting January 1st, we increased our fees.  We entered our new fees in General Billing “CMS Form Box 24 (Procedures)” and in Billing Codes “Procedures (CPT) Codes and Prices”.

When entering new invoices for existing patients, the old fees are still reflected on the CMS forms. We are currently manually updating the fees via the patients “Case Details”

How do we automatically update the fees with our existing patients?  And yes we do have the latest update (Acubase Pro + 8.5.40. 12/1/2007)

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Posted: 17 January 2008 02:57 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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Hi Lori.  We designed the program intentionally NOT to automatically update all existing cases and invoices with new price information, as, for many practitioners, patients in the database before the price increases would still get billed at old rates.  So there are two ways to change prices.  First, of course, in the procedure code prefs, which you did.  Then, go to the Billing prefs and reset prices in your General Billing section.  Once set here, every new invoice and/or new patient will automatically have those prefs. For pre-existing patients, you can go to their individual cases and reset the amounts (as you’ve been doing), or, assuming you bill them the same as you have your General Billing prefs set, on the Case Preferences screen for a given patient, under the CMS 1500 Box 24 settings section, you’ll see a link that says “Click here to auto-enter the procedures set up in your program Preferences...”. Doing that will reset ‘em to the newest General Billing settings.

Alas, in the end, say you change your price for Manual Therapy. There is no button to change that price throughout all patient cases at once.

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Posted: 31 March 2008 11:56 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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News:  The latest update of AcuBase now includes an “Update all patient cases” button in Preferences/Billing Codes that will auto-update all cases with the new or changed prices.

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