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This document contains information to assist installing Fagerman Technologies
MedLook or associated programs.
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To view Readme.txt on screen in Notepad, maximize the Notepad window and set
Format->Word Wrap to ON/Enabled.
To print Readme.txt, open it in Notepad or another word processor, and then use
the Print command on the File menu.
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If autorun does not automatically
start the setup, then invoking "setup.exe" will begin the setup
process. All other components can optionally be nstalled from this interface.
Only under supervision from Fagerman Technologies personnel should any of the
other .exe files be invoked directly.
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If installing on a machine with software that has not been
updated for quite some time it is possible that the main setup program will not
work. This is a limitation caused strictly by the operating system (probably
Windows 95 or 8). Updating the system can be done relatively easily. Instead of
selecting "setup.exe" select "IE55\I386\setup.exe" and your
system will be updated with Internet Explorer 5.5. This SHOULD bring your
system up to a recent enough state where the installation for MedLook can
begin. After installing IE55 (or a newer version from the Web or elsewhere),
once again select the "setup.exe" program and install the remaining
components and MedLook.
If setup.exe still is unable to run then use MedLook_setup.exe to install
MedLook itself. After installation of MedLook the program will try to run and
will probably fail. If this happens, then use the setup.exe in the top
directory once again. This should now work. At this point just follow the
directions.
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What do I do if I have problems installing?
This is a loaded
question so we'll look at several conditions. First, if you are installing from
a CD does it spin up automatically? If not that might be a problem. If you use
Windows Explorer and browse to the CD and double click on setup.exe does the
MedLook Master Setup appear? If it doesn't, the CD is bad, the CD reader device
is bad, or you have a security issue.
Next, if the Master Setup runs and
Install VFP (install Visual FoxPro) is "red", then you should run
this command (the button to the right). If that fails (and it shouldn't) then
double click on the VFPODBC.msi file on the CD or retrieve it from our download
page. This file is direct from Microsoft and is required. If you cannot install
this file you probably don't have privileges to do so.
Always install software using
Administrator privileges. You can check your privileges through the Control
Panel User Accounts.
Anti-virus software, spyware, and
Windows security may be preventing you from installing. Disable these programs
temporarily.
If MedLook installs but you get a
runtime error that says something like:
"DBTools/GetDBVersion:
Error#:429, Descr: ActiveX component can't create object"
Then the Visual FoxPro driver is
not yet properly installed. Again this is probably due to security measures on
your computer. To install this simply go to
c:\program files\rem
systems\medlook\bin
and double click on regvfp6.exe.
Try to run MedLook. It should work.
If your system has to be updated
with any of the listed components it is highly likely that at some time in the
process one of these setups will require a system reboot. It is difficult to
determine when this may happen. As a result, you may find that you have to
reboot your system to continue with the MedLook setup. To reboot you may even
have to 'kill the setup' program, and any other program you are running.
After rebooting let the program that was installing finish its job. After it
has completed the installation, return to the MedLook setup and continue with
the next component until MedLook itself is finally installed. The older and
more out of date your system is, the more support products you may have to
install.
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By default the MedLookServer
software is not installed with MedLook. If you intend to use network licensing,
then you will have to designate one computer system as your network server. The
system you choose does not have to be a true server but it should be the system
that is turned on most of the time and it has to be connected to your local
area network (LAN). When you install MedLook on your server system, you will
need to do a custom install and select the MedLookServer option. Do this by
selecting "Select Components and Install" from the MedLook setup.
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For the first time user a simple
database has been delivered to help familiarize the user with the software. To
use the sample simply select 'File->Open Database' and browse for
"C:\Program Files\Rem Systems\MedLook\Sample\MedLook.dbc" (you may
have installed the software elsewhere but this is the default location). Using
this sample you can do most of the activities involved in your office routine.
Remember, when you start using it with your actual data, open a new database
somewhere else, preferrably on a data drive and definitely not within
"Program Files."
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January 29, 2008 - Version 3.00.122 January 16, 2008 - Version 3.00.121 January 13, 2008 - Version 3.00.120 January 8, 2008 - Version 3.00.119 January 5, 2008 - Version 3.00.118 November 2, 2007 - Version 3.00.117 October 24, 2007 - Version 3.00.116 October 8, 2007 - Version 3.00.115 October 4, 2007 - Version 3.00.114 September 17, 2007 - Version 3.00.113 May 16, 2007 - Version 3.00.112 May 11, 2007 - Version 3.00.111 April 5, 2007 - Version 3.00.110 March 13, 2007 - Version 3.00.109 March 05, 2007 - Version 3.00.108 February 27, 2007 - Version 3.00.107 February 23, 2007 - Version 3.00.106 February 02, 2007 - Version 3.00.105 January 31, 2007 - Version 3.00.104 January 29, 2007 - Version 3.00.103 December 15, 2006 - Version 3.00.102 December 06, 2006 - Version 3.00.101 December 02, 2006 - Version 3.00.100 Patient Payment. Here's a great new change.
Added an Unassign Payments option to the bottom grid of the payment
dialog. It is instant and
irreversible with no questions asked so use it with care. The button appears as a black
exclamation mark, "!", in a yellow yield sign. This makes fixing an overpayment
problem a snap whereas it used to require about 10 steps. Database Changes. Removed HCFA layout tables from database. Data is now stored in XML files for more convenient sharing
between databases and users. HCFA Options. Removed the HCFA Configuration, Y-Values, X-Values (1, 2, 3) from the
Insurance Billing. Added a path to
the HCFA layout file and an Edit Button to edit the file. Recommend using XML Notepad (Freeware
from MS) as the editor. XML Layout Files. Added layout files in Template (and Template/Default) folders for new
and old CMS 1500 files as well as for patient billing. The patient billing layout does not
allow for 100% flexibility in moving items BUT it does give a tremendous amount
of flexibility in moving items in a very sensible way. Font, Size, bold, underline, italics,
captions, etc., can be changed for every field as well as format, top, left,
width, and height. Patient Summary. Added Marital Status and Referral to Patient summary screen. Charge Comments. If a comment is included with the charge AND it includes an EXCLAMATION
("!") as the first character AND the Box24/Supplemental field is
properly enabled in the CMS 1500 layout file then the comment will print as
directed. This allows for the top
line of each of the Box 24 procedures to be filled if appropriate. Options. Added option to Auto-save patient notes just like Quick Notes. Sub-folders. Added patient sub-folders as Zero Balance Due, Zero Patient Due, and
Patients Not Billed. Also modified
Transactions YTD, Transactions Last Year, and Unposted Line Items to include
TrNum and POS. Added referral
fields to Transactions YTD and Last Year. Sub-folders. Added Ins Aging Detail.
This report has a TON of fields in it but by default shows the insurance
aging grouped by carrier and patient.
A patient header line shows account #, name, DOB, SSN, Policy and Group
# with each aged patient procedure still open being shown and totals presented
in the footer. An EXCELLENT
insurance report. Scheduling. Added option in Appointments Print command to appointments by a time
range. The default is to determine
the "working day" for each day but as there may be appointments
outside of the typical working day some means had to be included to catch those
appointments as well. The time is
entered as "8:30am to 9:45pm". Scheduling. Fixed a few minor bugs found in the appointment printouts. Insurance Billing. Fixed bug in tax id/ssn where transitioning from doctor A using tax id
to doctor B using SSN would cause the Tax Id/SSN field to be set incorrectly on
one of the claims. No user ever
reported this as a problem as it would be unusual to have this situation. Patient Transactions. Fixed bug in Bal. Err column.
It was checking for out-of-balance conditions only by looking at the
LESS THAN not the EQUAL TO comparison operator. Also added a group condition and column to the bottom grid
on the same dialog so the totals are presented there for convenience. Patient Batch Billing. The "No Payments Since" field would also exclude accounts
with no payments ever. This has
been fixed. If no payments have
been received since the data given OR no payments have ever been received the
record will be included. Patient Billing. The formatted patient bill, whether for pre-printed or blank paper, now
allows you to alter the position of every field. You can change its top, left, width, and height attributes.
You can also set a field to be hidden or invisible. The caption for "boxed and titled" fields can be
changed as well. The fields can be
adjusted but not altogether moved.
The transactions for instance are restricted in movement up and down to
roughly 0.2 inches. Individual Insurance Billing. Secondary carrier information was not being printed in box 9. Patient Charge. The Box24E items were not being recalled for quick and speedy entry of
a near duplicate claim. It kept
defaulting back to 1. July 17, 2006 -
Version 3.00.94 Patient Billing. Changed the text for the perforation from "Return this
portion..." to "Return above portion..." for both individual and
batch patient billing. States list. Added all "states" abbreviations served by the US Postal
Service. The 50 states and
Washington, DC were already listed but the following were not (but are now): PR - PUERTO RICO AS - AMERICAN SAMOA FM - FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA GU - GUAM MH - MARSHALL ISLANDS MP - NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS PW - PALAU VI - VIRGIN ISLANDS AE - Armed Forces Africa, Canada, Europe, Middle East AA - Armed Forces Americas (except Canada) AP - Armed Forces Pacific June 5, 2006 -
Version 3.00.93 Setup. Fixed problem in Setup Kit where VFPODBC.MSI would not start. Problem was in the README, tips, and
tutorials as well and all had to do with having a SPACE (" ") in the
file path (e.g. c:\Program Files\Rem Systems\MedLook). Setup. Added Tips to Setup Kit.
Tutorials are not included as they take much more space. Appointments. If creating a new patient/appointment from the scheduler AND the very
last patient entered into the system had also been deleted then the deleted
account number was being selected and this caused problems making it impossible
to create the patient directly from the scheduler. Now a new patient number will be selected. Html Reports. Added Managed Care Tracking report. This report can be generated using the Diagnostics and
loading the ManagedCare.sql file from the SQL sub-folder in the MedLook product
folder. Patient
Sub-folders. Added Managed Care and DOS (Date of Service) reports. April 25, 2006 -
Version 3.00.92 Installation. Added warning message if vfp6 could not be registered. Also gives instruction on how to
register it properly. This cannot
be reproduced by any of our development or test systems. Also added a run-time check on this and
a message as well. Hopefully this
will help resolve the problem. Patient
Charge. Fixed minor bug in the charge screen
where the diagnosis codes would pull up the patient's codes correctly when
selecting the patient BUT they would also leave the prior patient's codes in
place for fields not used by the current patient. For instance, if a patient had two diagnosis codes on the
screen, you switch to a patient that only had one last time, when you switch
the second code would not clear itself but the first code would change. Now it comes up with whatever the
patient had last in any event. Patient
Charge. Changed the TOS and EPSDT settings to
"stick" like the POS and other settings between charges. If you close the patient edit dialog
the values will reset to the defaults upon the next entry. The TOS will also take on the setting
defined by the procedure code when and if the code changes. March 9, 2006 -
Version 3.00.91 Patient Payment. If no doctor has
been assigned then the first doctor will be assigned so the payment can be
entered. Main File Menu. Added Sample Database
as a persistent menu item so any user can return to the sample database at any
time. Main File Menu. Added Client
Database AND removed recent database list if registered as MedLook Biller
Limited. Selecting Client Database
will automatically create c:\MedLookData if it does not already exist. Utilities. Added
"Write-off open charges with insurance due" utility to the
miscellaneous utilities of 1 of X. January 24, 2006 -
Version 3.00.90
January 13, 2006 -
Version 3.00.90
October 27, 2005 -
Version 3.00.88
October 03, 2005 -
Version 3.00.87
1500 Viewer. If the 1500 claims viewer was maximized to the screen and an additional page was clicked to view (from the left side TOC) the program would crash. It was a resizing problem only.
Installation. MSMXML.dll was not set to be self-registering. On a completely virgin machine this COULD be a problem in a VERY RARE case.
Duplicate Patient Entry. In some cases not all duplicates were being identified due to case (upper/lower) insensitivity.
1500 Viewer. If the viewer was resized and a new claim was clicked it would return the viewer to its original size (but not location). Also, the width on some computers would be slightly larger than the screen size.
Appointments - New Patient. The New Patient entry on the appointments right click now includes the home and work phones as well. In addition, the first entry field is now FULL NAME where you can enter the patient's name in a free format (if you wish) as John Doe; or Doe, John; or John A. Doe; or Doe, John A; or some other combination. The name will be parsed and placed in the first and last name fields. If it is not parsed correctly simply edit the respective fields (first or last name) to make any correction.
Patient Charge. Yet again, the elusive multiple, duplicate, search of CPT codes on entry has been modified. There were still a few cases where this could slip through and not match the prior code exactly, if at all.
Patient Folders Pull-down. On the patient toolbar the Folders pull-down would not work correctly for New items in every case.
Patient Payments. A Cross-over insurance option has been added to the patient toolbar. It's a small icon on the right side. If it's selected it will be depressed. In the selected state it will automatically mark the secondary insurance as billed on that date when entering the payment for the primary insurance of a given charge. This eliminates having to switch to the billing tab, select secondary insurance as the payor, select the charge, and do a View/eClaims just to set the secondary's billing date.
Backups. In the backup command all .zip files were being excluded. The batch insurance files used for reprints are automatically stored as reprints and should not have been excluded. Now the MedLookBak*.zip files are the only .zip files excluded.
Custom Reports. Added eligibility and payor ids to the custom reports appointment lists. This is useful particularly when submitting eligibility checks to ClaimLogic.
Custom Reports. AT LAST! Wide margins are now supported on the left, right, top and bottom. Whew! Now the superbills can be predictably created.
Custom Reports. Percent Each Doctor has a Doctor grid to select which doctors are to be displayed.
Edit Doctor. Added another check to make sure a "blank" doctor code could not be added with a doctor.
Small Bug fixes. Several small but annoying bugs from 3.00.120 were fixed.
This includes the Payment screen not updating properly and an annoying error box
that would start in some cases the first time a database was opened (the
conditions had to be just right for this to happen).
1500 Layout. The cms1500NPI.xml layout has a few MINOR, one character changes.
These include:
Box 11a Insureds DOB - moved one character left (to 54).
Box 24f Charge Amount - moved one character right (to 52) for each line (1-6).
Box 29 Amount Paid - moved one character right (to 64).
Box 30 Balance Due - moved one character right (to 73).
Box 32 (all fields) - moved one character right (to 24).
Custom Templates. Added CLEligibility.txt for a .txt template.
Patient Charges. When entering a "custom" amount in the Box 24F field,
overriding the default with the code, then the subsequent amounts will also
change (insurance and patient due).
CMS 1500 Forms/Options. The two buttons for the new and old 1500 forms on the
1500 preview form have been replaced by a single button to either show or hide
the background image. The choice of new or old form has been moved and grouped
with other billing parameters on the Options dialog.
New SHARP 1500 Form. A new, sharp 1500 form has been included for the latest
CMS 1500 form.
Custom Reports. Made it possible to use a .txt file as a template (instead of a
.rtf file) and output the same.
Patient Formatted Statements. Added two (2) footer lines (optionally) to the
bottom of the bills. These can be edited in the billing layout file (Edit Layout).
Two new sections will automatically be added after generating the first
statement: PageFooter1 and PageFooter2. The "Text" field should be edited to
contain the information required for the footers.
POS Codes. Added nine (9) new POS codes into default database. This includes:
03 - SCHOOL,
09 - PRISON,
13 - ASSISTED LIVING,
14 - GROUP HOME,
15 - MOBILE UNIT,
20 URGENT CARE,
49 INDEP CLINIC,
50 - FED QUAL CNT,
57 NON-RES ABUSE,
60 - MASS IMMUN.
Existing databases can easily be edited to include these if required.
Patient Charges. In Charge entry, if the CPT list has duplicate codes with
the only difference being the description and the latter code is selected
the description for the FIRST of the duplicates will show on the patient
bill (and consequently on the Charge screen). The description was the only
thing shown incorrectly.
Patient Payments. The Allowed amount was being used incorrectly (I must have
been working too late, again). It now works as: Write-off = Balance -
Allowed; either secondary or patient due = Allowed - Payment; the payor due = 0.
Deductibles. The use of the deductible was causing the insurance NOT to be billed,
but rather the patient. The insurance must first be billed AND THEN the patient.
Fixed several other small inconsistencies with dates of service, copay, and
duplicate CPT procedure codes.
Transactions. Some adjustments may not have an assigned doctor. To remedy this
such transactions are assigned automatically to the responsible physician.
Appointments. Enter Copay will crash IF it's a new patient with no address
information entered.
Import. The CSV import options would fail if the "data field" itself
contained a comma.
Payments. The right click write-off/correction options could possibly
cause some records to contain somewhat confusing information.
File Copy To. If the database destination is read-only (perhaps it has
been opened by MedLook during this session) then the File Copy To command cannot
remove the folder as Windows has it locked open. A message is now displayed
with this information and the advice to exit and restart without opening the
destination folder in MedLook.
Office Reports. Added option (see Options) for Date of Service (DOS) or
Date of Entry (DOE) for date filters in reports. The default remains as DOS.
Often times billing services in particular need to present reports based upon
DOE for their contracts.
Appointments. The Page Setup parameters are now saved and recalled for
the appointment grid.
Appointments. Added "Enter Copay" to the popup menu. The patient (co)pay
can be entered very quickly with just the amount (defaulting to primary insurance
copay amount), source of payment (check/cash/credit card), and a comment. The
payment is not assigned to anything (there may not be anything to apply to at
the time of entry).
Insurance Reimbursement Report. Fixed a very minor bug regarding
rendering physician.
Database Analyzer. Added a date filter to the Repair Accounts function.
Grid Printing. In Patient Transactions and the Main folder list the Print
options (page layout and margins) are remembered between sessions. Patient
Transactions are remembered separate from the folder listings. Only one setup
is remembered for all of the folder listings.
Deleting Patients. In some of the patient sub-folders it was not possible
to delete a patient directly from the folder list without getting an error.
Batch Insurance. If deleting pages of data from the claims file AND then
saving it back to the original file, replacing the original, the claims file
would be emptied.
Edit Notes. If using a database that contained a SPACE anywhere in the
fully qualified path then Word, WordPad, etc., would not start in the proper file.
The MedLook editor would work just fine however.
Backups. Added database folder name to daily and weekly backup dialog to
clarify which database is being backed up.
Patient Payment. Added "Allowed" field. Using this field with an insurance
payment will result with an automatic write-off calculation and clearing the amount
due for the carrier making the payment. Just one more way to factor in a
write-off.
Batch Insurance Billing. Removed "Set Submission Date" and added command
button "Review." The Review button will NOT set the submission date for the
claims regardless if they are paper or electronic (they can be either). Process
Claims will always set the submission date for paper or electronic claims.
Patient Due sub-folder. Added Doc to listing per customer request. This
allows the data to be sorted and grouped by doctor as well.
Patient Summary. If insurance Claims Submission Mode was set to None then
the appointments would not show up in the patient summary.
Patient Sub-folder::Total Aging. Added primary and secondary insurance
information to the output.
Individual Insurance Billing. If billing multiple pages of insurance
claims from the patient account the PIN number in box 33 would only show up on
the last page.
Patient Insurance. Added a few more VERY MINOR checks for duplicate
insurance on patient insurance entry.
Delete Claims File Page. When viewing an existing claims file from the
batch insurance billing dialog, if the Delete Page was selected it would delete
the single page and then crash. Whoops! No data was damaged but it quickly
killed MedLook.
Patient Charge - TOS. In some instances selecting a procedure that had
multiple entries with varying TOS codes would cause the Charge screen to sometimes
immediately change the TOS to a different TOS after selecting the one desired.
This would only happen occasionally.
If using the 1...15 method of selecting patients rather than the folder
list then the Folders->Edit/New would give a "malfunctioning" message.
Batch Bills. The reprint files were not being stored with a time stamp
as part of the file name. This meant whatever batch was run last for the day
was the only one saved. This has been fixed for both insurance and patient
billing.
Insurance Claims View. When viewing an insurance claim additional lines
at the bottom are now shown for those layouts that are extra long.
Payments. An option has been added to Tools->Options to "Remember Source
of Payment" to allow for faster patient payment entry for patients with insurance.
Before this if the patient had insurance the Source of Payment would default to
Primary Insurance; otherwise to Patient. With this new setting checked Patient
can be selected as the Source of Payment and it will stay on Patient until set
to something else.
Licensing. Added MedLook Biller SE1 and SE2. SE1 is identical to
MedLook Biller Limited. SE2 is the same but allows for a second database
(c:\MedLookData2).
Options/Charges. Added two options: "Remember Units" and "Remember
Modifiers between charges". If enabled (not the default) then the next
charge for any given patient will have the same units (or modifiers) as
the prior charge. In some offices this is handy but in others it is a
hindrance; therefore it's an option.
Master Setup. Fixed problem on Vista systems. Somehow the setup would
try to run the 95/98 setup.
Scheduling. Added option to "Share" settings with other users of the
same database. The shared settings include virtually all of the parameters
on the first tab of the Scheduling parameters (colors, etc.). After making
changes on one system the users of other systems may have to either exit and
re-enter, move to another folder and then back to Appointments, or view the
Options dialog and then close it.
Scheduling. The New Patient/Appointment option was not honoring the
Check For Duplicate Patient option. It does now.
Options. The Auto Billing option now defaults to Yes upon initial
installation.
Edit Patient. If the area code is nothing then (000) is no longer
displayed but rather nothing is displayed. The same for the zipcode. Also
changed the States list to first include a blank state. This will allow for
the city to contain City/Province/Country if necessary (e.g. for Canada).
Eventually this will be done properly.
Date Of Entry Reports. Added (DOE) reports to Diagnosis Codes, Doctors,
Insurance, and Procedure codes. This differ from the reports without the (DOE)
connotation in that these use the date-of-entry for all calculations and display.
The others use the date-of-service.
DOS, POS, and Visit Reports. Added Facility to each of these Patient
sub-folders to more easily discern and analyze the income and expenses per
facility (great for a multiple office practice).
Patient Sub-folders. Added Copay and Deductible sub-folder (although
it was already in By Doctors and By Insurance).
SSN and Work Phone Display. In some of the lists/grids and for some
databases the work phone and the SSN numbers were being truncated on the display.
This has been fixed.
Resources. Fixed bug in appointment Edit Respources. It was impossible
to enter a new resource (e.g. a room). The grid layout needed to be updated
for the NPI number.
Custom Reports. The appointments displayed in the custom appointment
list would not automatically update if the date was keyed in rather than
selected from a calendar drop-down.
Patient Batch Billing. If using pre-printed forms and printing to paper
with multiple doctors the batch would crash because of the batch billing log
file necessary to store each patient billed (introduced in 3.0.113)
Edit Charge. The Days/Units "memory" is better - it remembers the last
setting per patient. Also, the modifiers are remembered per last charge even if
they were not stored with the procedure (you can enter these as you go, the list
is not necessary, just helpful).
Edit Charge. The Debit field would remain greyed out after editing a charge.
Deleting Posted Transactions. Alas, after long contemplation on this topic
we are enabling the deletion of posted transactions. Of course, we strongly frown
on this but realize sometimes this is a must. We will allow this to happen BUT a
nag/confirmation is always displayed AND the next ledger will be in error as the
prior ledger amount will no longer add up to the same numbers.
Delete Patients/Archive. When deleting a patient, or archiving a patient,
a message would be displayed if there were ANY transactions or appointments for
the patient. This message has been removed as it was a bit annoying when
archiving hundreds of patients.
Custom Reports and Labels. Added option to browse for and load a file of
patient numbers (one per line) to load into the Patient listing, automatically
selecting the patients listed in the file.
Custom Reports and Labels. Added drop down to allow the user to pick from
any particular patient folder list (patient sub-folders). This makes it much
easier to generate the particular output that may be required (e.g. labels for
patients coming in tomorrow, or a custom report for patients 120+ days late with
payments).
Multiple Units/Box 24G. Fixed bug where the multiplied fee for a procedure
would end up back into the box 24G amount field.
1500 Claims Printing. When viewing the 1500 claims it has been
possible to print a single page at a time WITH THE FORM. Since more
than one customer has expressed the need to be able to print the claims
form with the claim data this has now been made possible. Clicking on
Print will bring up the printer dialog as always and then a dialog appears
giving the choice to print the current page, all pages, or abort. Of course,
when you select the printer the device may actually be a printer, or a PDF
file converter, or even a fax line.
Recall Labels. Changed date from a simple start Month/Year to a complete
date range (start mm/dd/yy to end date).
Dates. If the system date was changed to something other than the standard,
normal, Windows default setting in the Regional and Language Options settings
MedLook would not allow you to enter dates. Wow was this a bugger to figure out.
You can now have alternative settings.
Edit Insurance. Added Eligibility field to insurance dialog. This is
also available for custom reports [Ins1Eligibility]. See ClaimLogicEligibility.rtf
in the template folder for an example.
Formatted Statements. Changed the "formatted"/batch bill formatted
bills output just slightly. Some codes being used would wrap around in the
description field add a second line for only one or two characters that looked
ugly. This will no longer happen but the "codes" are no longer aligned in
perfect columns either. However, the overall appearance is improved.
Additionally the word "Credit" does not appear but rather whatever the user
enters in the Helpers section for credits and write-offs will appear. This
makes it easier for each office to explain their own bills and syntax used.
Master Setup. A rare instance was found on Windows 200x Server that the
system reported itself as what appears to be Windows 98 or ME. This would cause
the Windows 9x specific MedLook installation to run and consequently give a
ctlAppts failed to load message.
Restore. Fixed Restore command. The files in the target folder were not
being properly overwritten.
Recall Labels. Changed date from a simple start Month/Year to a complete
date range (start mm/dd/yy to end date).
Folder menu. The Folders menu drop down now has a popup for Edit/New/Goto Folder
for Patients, Referrals, etc. This is very handy when viewing one folder but
wanting to edit a completely different folder without leaving the folder you
are viewing. For instance, editing a procedure code while viewing appointments.
Edit Patient. Made Responsible Physician default to the last SELECTED physician.
It will remain as this physician until another one is selected.
Appointment List. The grid display of appointments under the appointment
calendar would not ALWAYS correctly edit the FIRST patients account using the
right click Edit Patient menu item.
Edits. Each of the Edit dialogs (doctor, hospitals, etc.) have been updated to
trim off white space on the left as well as the right edge of the data entered.
There were cases where the left edge would not be trimmed for white space and
this could later lead to potential matching problems.
Patient Sub-folders. Added By Doctor sub-folder. Very similar to By Insurance
(in fact the contain almost identical data) except the default grouping is by doctor.
SQL. Added ListPatientsSeenByDocPerCarrier.sql file for custom reports.
Appointments. Added DOB to all appointment grids (Today, Tomorrow, etc.) and
also to the Appointment List below the calendar.
Code lists. Added the Valid Code flag to the procedure and diagnosis code lists.
Transactions YTD/Last Year. Added Patient Status to grids.
Transaction grids. Added DOE (date of entry) to each grid (Transactions YTD,
Last Year, DOS, Visit, POS, Unposted Transactions).
Our phone numbers. All of the MedLook (Fagerman Technologies) phone lines and
fax numbers have been updated. The 800's and fax line are still having problems!
Dictionary. Added more terms to dictionary so Claims Logic (clearinghouse) can
easily do eligibility checks. These include: Ins1PayorId, Ins1Birthday,
Ins1FirstName, Ins1LastName, Ins1Sex, Ins1SSN, Ins1Rel, Ins1ProvId (and repeat
for Ins2).
Dictionary. Add ManagedCare stuff to dictionary for custom reports. See the
manual for details.
Manual. It is now MUCH SMALLER. Just over 4MB. Plus it is much more handy in
that the table of contents jumps to the right location, etc.
Custom Reports. Option to output custom reports as text (.txt).
Database change! Allow units to be a decimal (actually 3-digits, 1 to 999 or 9.9).
File menu. Add menu editor to remove Recently Used Databases. Each database
listed now has a pull-over menu for Open Database or Remove Entry. Remove Entry
DOES NOT DELETE THE DATABASE - it just removes it from the "most recently used"
file list.
Ledger. Add DELETE to History of Ledger reports.
Batch Billing and Labels. Store patient numbers generated from batch billing.
Import for labels. Similarly for insurance in claims.
Procedure entry on Charge dialog. Entering procedure codes can now be done by
key-in only! In the case of a conflict the Find Procedure dialog will appear
automatically to resolve the selection. Also, the fee is automatically set to
$0 when the procedure is changed FORCING the user to be sure the proper fee is set.
Registration. Added Copy To Clipboard for registration and email. Also changed
the subscription modes to automatically fill the Month/Year fields appropriately.
Saving eClaims Files. This works a bit more reliably now. The folder where the
claims are saved (e.g. c:\claims) will always have a sub-folder called xml
(i.e. c:\claims\xml). In the subfolder the xml version of the claims are saved.
Referrals. UPIN is no longer required in lieu of the NPI number.
Fee Schedules. They can now be independent of the doctor (or not, however you
need it to work).
Appointment Filters. The default was Any Date which most users didn't know to
change and would consequently slow their appointment displays down. Changed the
default to On Calendar so it only shows appointments shown in the calendar
display.
Total Aging grid. Added DOB to this display.
Labels and Reports. On grids that show patients added right click Edit to go
directly to the patient's account.
NPI Layout. In NPI form turn off box 33 pin and on 33 group.
Insurance. Changed the insurance to default to Number for box 24e. Also changed
it to list box 24E Number first and POS as Medicare.
Purge. DOL Purge message for Patient was the same as for insurance, the date
fields were not-editable, and the purge was not reliable due to spaces in the
folder path.
Find Charge. Add modifiers to Find Charge.
Renumber/Merge Two Patients. Renumber patient can now merge two patients as well.
Optionally remove the one patient.
Times/Units. Changed Times to Units on bills when multiple
Days or Units – Box 24G is used.
Statements and Fonts. Font Size and Name were not being used properly at the
level of each item (it was only being used per page).
Utilities 1 of X. Added Remove Managed Care Records:
With Less than ONE (1) Visit? Y/N
Beyond their expiration dates? Y/N
Patient Summary. Added Restore Default Patient Summary.
Doctor Code. No longer accepting duplicates and if it's changed all connected
records are updated accordingly.
Claims error. If no doctor or facility PIN numbers are present in the system an
error may occur when generating claims. Since these are no longer necessary this
has been removed.
Edit Patient. Added Remove... button to quickly (ok, just a bit quicker) remove
the carrier or the referral from a patient's account. The CLEAR button method
still exists on the corresponding Find Dialog.
Charges with Multiple Units. If the units are entered with a NEGATIVE sign (as -5)
then the fee is NOT multiplied by the units. The units will not print with the
negative sign however on any statements, claims, or reports. You can only see
the negative sign in the charge dialog or on the transactions.
Custom Patient Fields. Fixed bug if the last field entered was deleted.
Mulitiple instances. MedLook will no longer allow for multiple instances to be run.
Editing Transaction Comments. When editing comments on the transactions dialog
the data is automatically trimmed so a run-over won't happen with part of the
comment being removed.
Database Analyzer. Added numbers to each button for clarity when walking through
this dialog with clients.
Editing Transaction Amounts. A blank will not be changed to 0 rather than an error.
Patient sub-folder By Insurance. Added Copay amount to grid.
Utilities 1 of X. Overpaid/Underpaid option would not close the first account
in the list.
Duplicate Patient Entry. When adding patients they are checked for duplicates
by first and last name. A box is displayed to inform the user of a potential duplicate.
Utilities. These are available for all licenses/products.
Layout Editor Default. Xmlpad.exe is now defaulted as the editor EVEN IF IT IS
NOT INSTALLED.
Default Layout. The claims default layout is now set to NPI.
Reprints. These were not working if the path contained a space in it. Fixed
this in other locations as well.
Payments. Bottom grid didn't properly restore the default layout as expected.
Payments. If primary and secondary insurance both owe money and if primary pays
then the P button should leave secondary alone.
Batch Billing. Allow for date range to be either DOS (only method prior to this)
or DOE (date of entry). This allows for claims to be regenerated based upon the
date of entry and can be very useful in some cases.
Layouts. Verifying valid layouts when reading.
Utilities. Added Where claim was created AFTER option to the write-off open
charges option.
Utilities. Included an update to the LastPayAmt field when doing an Update DOL
command. This COULD fix the rare BAD RECORD that has happened upon very rare occasion.
Default Window Location. Changed the default window location from the MedLook
working area to the center of the screen.
Patient Statements. Fixed problem with the values not adding up correctly
especially when using the two options: Include Open Charges and Exclude Closed
Charges. These two options seemed to cause a lot of grief.
Patient Billing Layouts. If file does not exist it will create it. If items are
missing in the file they will be created as necessary and displayed by default.
Patient Batch Billing. The New Transactions Only option did not always work as
expected. It now looks at the same information as the Patients Not Billed
patient sub-folder looks at. The DOS and DOE of entry are not used. A transaction
could have been entered months after it was performed and then billing may not
take place for some time yet after this.
Restore. Fixed Restore command. The files in the target folder were not
being properly overwritten.
Folders Pull-down in Patient Dialog. Fixed bug with SqlConnectStr not be
initialized on the first try FOR NEW EDITS (the last build only fixed it
for edits).
Appointments. Fixed appointment list (bottom grid of appointment
scheduler) to update when clicking on the Month views. If the option was set
to filter "On Calendar" it would not update when changing the calendar date.
Edit Insurance Dialog. Made some fields wider to view the entire field
(PINs, etc.). Slightly rearranged dialog for this.
Folders Pull-down in Patient Dialog. Fixed bug with SqlConnectStr not
be initialized on the first try.
Facility PINs. The facility (box 32) PINs were not 100%
predictable/correct in the case where facilities were named nearly identically.
Help Manual. The manual was not displaying when invoked via this command.
Patient Individual Billing. Added option to "Ignore Balance Forward"
such that the Line Items and Payments option along with the Transactions
Ordered By Dates could print out a statement without including the Balance
Forward amount, especially for the former statement.
Patient Sub-folders. The DOS reports were reporting the
RESPONSIBLE physician instead of the ATTENDING physician. Also fixed the
secondary insurance calculation.
Patient Sub-folders. Added Posted, Billed, Ins1 Paid, Ins1 Submitted
fields to Transactions YTD and Transactions Last Year folders.
Patient Sub-folders. Added folders for: By Visit, By Visit YTD,
and By Visit Last Year. These reports contain the following fields: DOS,
Patient Name, Age, Phones, Account #, Amount billed (for DOS), Amount
Collected, Balance, Doctor, Primary Insurance, Referral, Dates (for sorting
and grouping), and the number of procedures performed. These are excellent
reports for practice statistics. These are grouped by Year, Month, and
Doctor but can be regrouped in any combination (e.g. Doctor, Carrier, Year,
Month) to suite your needs.
MedLook Student. Changed the registration mechanics and how it works
in general. MedLook Student is now limited only by a maximum of 50 items
per folder. Multiple databases, etc., are all enabled.
Miscellaneous Utilities. Added "Select Carrier" in "Write-off open
charges:: With Primary Insurance Due" such that either all carriers (blank)
would be checked or a single carrier. This is handy in the case where an
individual carrier may have a different extension period in which to re-submit
claims (12 months, 18 months, etc.).
Windows Vista. Found another minor bug with the grids not updating
properly after an edit.
Patient Billing. For some crazy reason payments (and some charges)
that were between $0 and $1 were being printed as blank spaces.
Patient Ledger. Fixed View History bug where old reports would not
display if the pathname had a space in it (e.g. c:\program files).
Patient Ledger. Changed automatically saved ledger to have zero
filled hour and time such as 0509070809 for May 5, 2007 at 8:09 am. Also
display History of files sorted by system sorting method (whatever DIR is
set to use).
CMS Test Page. Changed text in box 24 NPI to print DOCNPI1234
instead of ALT24K001.
MANUAL. At long last the manual is now completely up-to-date with the software.
The Help system is next.
Scheduler. Once a patient was used for a filter to the appointment list
it would not clear even if selecting the clear button on the Find Patient dialog.
Scheduler. Not all of the options would update properly due to a timing
issue. This has been resolved by adding a 0.5 second pause when exiting the Options dialog.
Insurance Claims. When saving insurance claims to a folder other than the
one specified in the layout file the resultant file would be left in the original
folder and the new destination would have a 0 byte file in its place.
New Paper Claims Format. The new Paper claims format is now using a
separate field for the Modifiers in the NPI enabled layouts found in the
Template folder within the MedLook installation folder.
Patient Summmary/Custom Reports. New fields have been added to the MedLook
Data Dictionary regarding patient scheduling. On the bottom of the Patient Summary
screen the next four appointments will print as usual BUT now the appointment status
will print as well. PLUS immediately below that, bolded, the prior four appointments
and their status values will print. This is handy for those patients who keep
missing their appointments, etc. and also for quickly checking the prior DOS for
the patient. The new fields include:
ApptStatusX, ApptProcX, ApptDescX where X is 1 to 4 and
ApptStatusBX, ApptProcBX, ApptDescBX where B means backwards in time.
Windows Vista! At last MedLook runs on Windows Vista. Just a minor thing
with the connection string but a real bugger to find.
Patient Sub-folders. Fixed minor bug in calculation of Total Aging 0-30,
etc., days per category. It was fine in the Total Aging but not in each respective
category (Total Aging 0-30, etc.) IF, and only IF, there were more than two
insurance carriers.
CMS 1500 Test Page. Somehow the Box 3 DOB field was skipped previously.
Also the Abort on the printer command didn't really abort but it does now.
Users. If the last user entered was deleted (how? - there's no tool for
this) then new users could not be added without packing the "users" table at the least.
CMS 1500 Test Page. A utility has been added to print a CMS 1500 test page.
The page can be printed for Paper claims or Electronic claims. The electronic
claims can also be saved to a file for examination. Fields that are M(ale) or
F(emale) print with an M or an F. Y(es) and N(o) fields print with a Y or a N, etc.
1500 field default locations. Box 8 Other was defaulting to Box 8 Married
in most of the layouts. The dates in 16 and 18 weren't matching - they were off
by one character. Tidied up all three layout files (Formats, Defaults, *Hybred*).
Transaction Numbers. Updated the method by which transaction numbers were
provided. It should now be impossible to generate a duplicate transaction number
even if the primary key is lost or broken. However, the control table must remain
valid in any case.
Charge - TOS default. Somehow the TOS on the charge screen kept resetting
itself to blank/nothing. Fixed - again.
Appointments. Made it possible to shrink the Appointment Editor to less
than 0.5 inches. Added smart resizing in the process.
Diagnostics. Made FoxPro Commands default to same database as the result
of the tools.
Hospitals. If last hospital entered was deleted then it was "difficult"
to add a new one (you would have to either pack or add a new doctor first).
Database and Options. Added Database Integrity check to Options. This
will do a complete database analysis when opening up the database. This
includes checking for matching fields, tables, and indices. Missing tables
or indices is SERIOUS business. A mismatched field can be "overlooked."
It is highly suggested that a single user office or administrator run MedLook
with this option enabled. This feature was automatic and unconditional in
ML 2.0 but was removed because it took a few extra seconds to start MedLook
each time. However, it is better to have reliable data and start up a little
slower. Nevertheless, this is an option.
Options. The option to include/exclude a space between modifiers was inadvertently dropped.
Registration. The Solo registrations would cause MedLook to sometimes fail to load.
Diagnostics. Fixed a few minor messages that could appear with duplicate named commands.
BillFlash. On the Export BillFlash Options in the Line 1 and
Line 2 Statement Header fields a carriage return was being allowed.
This is causes the statements to BillFlash to be invalid. Any carriage
returns entered are now automatically replaced with a space.
Doctors, Hospitals, Referrals. Increased field size to 15
characters for city names to match the rest of the database.
Insurance Billing. Found bug in conversion of database from
3.0.95 to anything greater. The box 23 (prior authorization/CLIA)
was incorrectly assuming the same Y (vertical) position as the box
21 line 1 value rather than line 2.
SQL. Added SQL statement to sql folder in product directory to
eliminate sample patients, doctor, and referrals. Did not delete codes
or carriers as they may be in use.
Insurance claims. Box 24E should have been defaulting to print the
codes with a space separator but it was not.
Registration. Added extra messages to help when registration fails.
Also, if registering a "Solo" product that is registered to the doctor's name
then the name is extracted directly from the database to facilitate exact
matching and ease the registration process.
Edit Patient. The Find Referrals dialog was not listing all of the
fields. Most notably it was missing the cross-link and address.
1500 Layouts. Added a hybred layout for the 1500 form. This layout
contains the new paper 1500 format and the old format for electronic. Since
all paper claims must be sent on the new form and many clearinghouses still
are receiving the old Print Image format this new file is often necessary.
Edit Patient and Options. Modified the Options fields for Marital
Status, Student Status, and Employment such that they are similar to Title.
In each of these fields you specify the default value and using a comma as a
delimiter define the rest of the fields. The first character of each field
must be unique (i.e you cannot have a Full Time student and a Failing student
as they both begin with F.
Patient Payment. Added option to "Include Closed Charges" to the
bottom/assignment grid of the Payment dialog. This makes it MUCH easier to
edit closed transactions. This would most likely be useful for those cases
where insurance pays more than the expected amount and the patient has already
paid. In this case a patient refund would be in order.
Options. Added a default for the fee schedule when entering new patients.
Fee Schedules. Fee schedules are no longer restricted to a doctor.
Fee schedules can be practice-wide or specific to a doctor. Previously there
was only one (un-named) fee schedule for the practice and doctor specific fee
schedules.
Individual Patient Billing. Added extra call needed to make HCFA Layout changes effective immediately.
Patient Sub-folders. Added primary and secondary insurance data to the Total
Aging XX-YY sub-folders. This allows for sorting by insurance. Aggregrates of
grouped data is also available. By default the data is grouped per carrier and
per a dummy group for totals.
Batch Insurance Billing. The Line Item Report was not properly separating
the data when sorted by the last name or insurance carrier.
Edit Insurance. The Claims Submission Mode would default to None when saving
a New Insurance carrier.
Database Analyzer. When changing the database on the main screen the database
was not being forwarded to the Table Repair dialog.
Patient Payment. After entering a payment and before applying it to a charge
you can change the source of payment (e.g. from Patient to Write-off). If changing
from an insurance carrier, patient, or other payor to a write-off or credit (or vice
versa) a flag would remain incorrectly set on the payment line. This would result
in the payments appearing as credits and the credits appearing as payments in the
ledger report. It is nothing serious but looks funny in the report.
Patient Billing. Added options to support Credit Card Payment Options.
Patient Edit. If a Responsible Party was enabled the empty address fields,
etc., would always default back to the patient fields even. Now they only default
the first time.
Patient Account. Fixed bug where Prompt For Changes was enabled, something
had been changed on the Edit Patient dialog, and the Go Back button was clicked
without first saving the changes. A warning would appear and the changes would
not be saved. Very minor change.
NPI. Added the NPI fields to the doctor, referral, and hospital Default
and Find layouts.
NPI. Added Group NPI to the doctor dialog. While this may not be the best
solution it is definitey a working solution. If there are multiple doctors in the
group they should have the same group NPI. Nevertheless, it will have to be entered
for each doctor in the group NPI field.
Patient Schedule Sub-folders. Added patient "note/comment" to each schedule
sub-folder. The user will have to use the right click restore default layout option
to get the latest layout for each.
Database Analyzer. Added field attribute comparison test to full analysis
of Tables, Fields, and Indices.
SQL. Added a few more SQL commands to check for duplicate transactions and
to remove them if found.
Patient Find Dialog. Added Patient Note/Remark/Comment (whatever you want
to call it) to the list per customer request.
Edit Patient. DATABASE UPGRADE! Added user defined patient fields. It is
now possible to add as many 20 character field names with 80 character field data
as anyone may wish to add.
Insurance Reimbursement Report. Added option in Detail report to include any
one user defined patient field. This is per a customer request as well.
Folders.xml. This file was updated to include new reports and other options.
Diagnostics. Added Load VFP File to VFP Commands (mostly for testing). Changed
VFP dialog size.
Layouts. Added TDDPCFields.lyt and TPatientCustomFields.lyt. Updated TFindPatient.lyt
and TFindPatientMru.lyt.
Insurance Claims/Billing. If hospitalization of multiple procedures consecutively the claims would break pages after the first claim needlessly. ML now looks at the hospitalization more carefully and doesn't break unless it has to even for the first couple of claims.
Insurance Claims/Billing. Added more options to allow for 1 to 50 claims per page (of whatever form you might be filling out). Also added optional output of transaction number (per procedure) and SSN per page.
Insurance Billing. Fixed minor bug with claims files not updating to the value in the layout when changing databases. This would normally only affect a billing service that changes databases on a regular basis.
Patient Sub-folder. Zero Patient Due and Zero Balance Due did not include accounts with no transactions at all. These same folders would cause Archive and Delete to fail.
Patient Charge. Fixed bug introduced into user interface for box 24e. Once again it was reverting to 1. Bug introduced while fixing problem with new 1500 form requiring NO SPACES between fields on form but old 1500 form requiring them.
Database. The message number in the patient table was still set to a limit of 999. It has been updated
to match the other tables.
NPI Format. Updated Paper section of Cms1500NPI.xml layout file. This wasn't done earlier due to time.
Cms1500 Formats. Added parameter to print/not-print a space in Box24e. The default is to print a space
as in the old format.
Patient Sub-Folders. Added "Bad Records" sub-folder. The only thing it notes at the moment is records
that contain a corrupt LastPayAmt data field.
Insurance Claims. Removed the 10 character limit on box 24k.
Edit Insurance. Fixed bug in Facility PIN entry. Also removed text size limit. Changed a few
defaults: POS is now Medicare, Box24E is now Number/Pointer/Index, and Electronic instead of Printer
output.
November 21, 2006 - Version 3.00.99
Insurance Batch Billing. Added option to Show Charges "Left Off Form." The way the "Leave Charge Off
Form" worked in batch billing before was NOT obvious. It only applied to charges when processing
Unsubmitted Charges Only. But what if you always want to leave that charge off from the insurance form
(like for late appointment charges)? It was impossible. Now this option makes that possible.
Insurance Batch Billing. Added a number of new scrubbing features to claims.
Options. Added two options to validate codes for insurance claim processing. The first is Verify
Diagnosis Codes. This works just as before (but it was dropped by accident a couple of versions back)
in that it checks for the Valid Code flag on the diagnosis code. If it is not valid it is reported in
the bottom of the claim screen. The second is Include Valid Procedures Only. If checked, then only
procedure codes marked with the Valid Code will appear in the claims list. If there are duplicate
procedure codes and any one of them do not have Valid Codes then they will all be excluded. Using this
feature makes it possible to bill patients for certain procedures without billing their insurance.
Box 18. The hospitalization dates were for some reason tied to POS and outside lab fees. I believe
this is a hang over from the old DOS program and lack of understanding. This connection has now been
discarded. If hospitalization dates are entered in the patient account and transactions are submitted
within the date range then box 18 will reflect this information.
Edit Patient. If insurance is provided then the policy # must have something in it.
November 16, 2006 - Version 3.00.98
Layouts. Fixing inconsistencies in the delivered layouts, particularly for printing the 1500 forms.
Procedure Code Sub-folders. Added Collected, Patient Due, and Ins1 Due to the Financial sub-folders for
procedure codes.
Patient Batch Billing. If disabling the Aging Balance display but enabling the aged comments, the
comments would not appear. The problem was that the software was not computing aging at all so
therefore the aged comments could not be shown. Now aging is computed if either of these are enabled.
It is only shown if Aging Balance is checked.
Edit Procedures. If displaying some of the procedure codes sub-folders an error would occur trying to
open the code for editing.
Procedure Code sub-folders. Three additional sub-folders have been added to the procedure codes: Proc
Payments, Proc YTD Payments, Proc Last Year's Payments. These differ from the "Financial" sub-folders
in that the computed amount is the amount COLLECTED during the given time period which may be
considerably different than the DOS.
November 13, 2006 - Version 3.00.97
Utilities. To the utility "Write-off open charges with insurance due" some changes have been made to
add more flexibility. It is now called "Write-off open charges" with the additional options of:
With Primary Insurance Due
With Secondary Insurance Due
With Patient or Other Due
Patient Formatted Bills. Added ability to change page width and top, left, right, bottom margins.
Credit Card Processing. Added X-Charge interface for credit card processing.
Layout Editor. Since Windows only cooperates 50% of the time with the Edit Layout command in patient
and insurance billing (both individual and batch) an field was added to the Options dialog to select an
appropriate XML Layout editor. By default this field is blank and will therefore, or should anyhow,
default to the pre-set XML editor. However, since this fails so often you should point this to either
MSWord.exe or install XML Notepad and point it to c:\program files\xmlnotepad\xmlpad.exe.
Insurance Claims. Fixed problem in data files when Saving to a folder other than the default folder
selected.
October 30, 2006 -
Version 3.00.96 (version .95 was a temporary, quick fix)
Added NPI numbers.
NPI data
fields have been added to the Edit Doctor, Referrals, and Hospitals. In addition these numbers are printed
as appropriate on the CMS 1500 form if selected an NPI enabled format.
Find Dialog. Added a "Restore Default
Layout" to the Find dialog.
In the case where the layout has become lost or so messed up that you
need to return to the default a new "undo" icon has been added to restore
the default layout.
Archive. Removed ability to archive patients with open
accounts. Archiving open accounts
caused the ledger to "appear" to be out of balance for the day.
Patient Billing.
Using the
formatted patient bill if there was a second address line available (e.g. Suite
B) it would print on the same line as the first address line (separated by a
comma). It now prints on the next
line down, pushing the city, state, and zip down one line. Also, the "For Patient: Name Here" prints as one line
instead of two like the rest of the bills.
Patient Billing.
Could not
generate tertiary (or more) insurance claim.
Appointments.
When
creating new appointment AND patient, no doctor was being assigned. Now it defaults to the current
resource. If you immediately went
to payment and patient billing this caused a problem.
Unable to close MedLook. This is a quick release, not
entirely necessary, but helpful to people just trying MedLook. With all of the
default settings it was possible to get in a position where MedLook would not
close. This has been fixed. Once data had been entered this problem could not
be reproduced, it would only happen with an empty database.
POS. Could not add POS codes in the POS editor
dialog.
MedLook Biller Limited. Added product option for
MedLook Biller.
BillFlash. Added BillFlash output file option to Patient
Batch Billing. When displaying patient batch bills, Export->BillFlash
Options and BillFlash are added options. These are to be used when generating a
statement file to be submitted to BillFlash for mass printing.
Patient Charge. The doctor selection (
Patient Batch Billing. Fixed a few minor options
where turning an option off did not immediately affect the display.
Sample database. A new sample database is provided
with more current codes, transactions, etc.
Insurance Batch Billing. Fixed problem where
re-directing the insurance claims from the printer to file still sent the
claims to the printer.
Patient Payment. Fixed VERY minor VERY occasional
bug where an error COULD occur if an odd sequence of events took place that
required killing MedLook to get out of the loop.
Utilities. Added utility to fix accounts that end
up with a duplicate insurance problem. Look in Tools->Utilities 1 of X.
Patient Edit. Fixed Responsible Party/Bill Other
address problem on New Patient edit. The patient's address would ALWAYS be
saved regardless of what was entered for the responsible party.
Patient Edit - Duplicate Insurance.. Wow, this was
a difficult bug to find. A few clients have occasionally encountered a problem
where duplicate insurance information would be loaded for a patient and then it
was difficult to get rid of (hence the utility added as noted above). The bug
has finally been found and fixed.
DOL. The DOL (date of last) calculations on the
patient summary and then in custom reports was not printing.
Patient Recover. Fixed bug in file path missing a
"\" making it impossible to recover patients.
Options. Added option to Show Folder Item on
startup. For example, if editing patients when last in the program then on
starting up the patient's account will automatically be opened.
Registration. Added Solo suite as Starter, 500,
1000, Unlimited.
Installation. Added weekly tips archive to
delivery.
Help. Added Manual, local and web tips to menu.
Archive/Restore. To avoid confusion the main
program is hidden when using archive/restore. Also a minor bug with grouped
data items has been addressed.
Edit Patient. Found and fixed odd case where a
patient did NOT have an assigned doctor in a single doctor database and the
assignment could NOT be made to the doctor.
Setup. Added a menu item and desktop item for the
manual.
Patient Account. Added Edit Template and Quick
Notes to Options in Summary display. Added Edit Template in Notes display as
well.
Diagnostics. Added command button to activate
Visual Fox Pro command box. Previously it was hidden. Changed Full Analysis to
Analyze Tables, Fields, and Indices (see General note below).
Tools. Added command button to activate SQL display
in Edit La