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MedLook Weekly Tip Archive

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  1. 03/12/2008 - DOS Script for Backups
  2. 02/05/2008 - Adding Footers to Patient Statements
  3. 07/19/2007 - How To Format Claims Fields
  4. 07/03/2007 - How To Adjust Claims Alignment
  5. 05/24/2007 - NPI - Printing Claims To Different Printers and Saving To Multiple Files
  6. 05/02/2007 - NPI - Editing Layout Files Using XML Notepad
  7. 04/16/2007 - NPI - CMS Test Pages (Paper and Electronic Formats)
  8. 04/09/2007 - NPI - The Old and the New CMS 1500 Format
  9. 03/20/2007 - NPI - Entering NPI Data
  10. 03/05/2007 - Options - New Patient Defaults
  11. 02/23/2007 - Sub-folders for Patients - Problem Accounts
  12. 02/20/2007 - Sub-folders for Patients - By Diagnosis or Procedure Codes
  13. 02/11/2007 - Sub-folders for Patients - By POS
  14. 02/02/2007 - Sub-folders for Patients - Patient Status, Auto-Billing, & Recall Dates
  15. 01/29/2007 - Sub-folders for Patients - By Insurance and Responsible Party
  16. 01/20/2007 - Sub-folders for Patients - Managed Care and In Hospital
  17. 01/16/2007 - Sub-folders for Patients - DOS Report
  18. 01/05/2007 - Sub-folders for Patients - Insurance Aging
  19. 12/15/2006 - Sub-folders for Patients - Total Aging
  20. 12/08/2006 - Sub-folders for Patients - Pending Insurance
  21. 12/02/2006 - Sub-folders for Patients - Late Payments (X Days Late), DOL Transaction, and Without Transactions
  22. 11/22/2006 - Sub-folders for Patients - Patient Due, Zero Due
  23. 11/11/2006 - Sub-folders for Patients - Open Charges, Open Accounts
  24. 11/06/2006 - Sub-folders for Patients - Transactions NOT Billed
  25. 10/30/2006 - Sub-folders for Patients - Transactions
  26. 10/15/2006 - Sub-folders for Patients - Un-posted Transactions
  27. 10/06/2006 - Sub-folders for Patients - Scheduling
  28. 09/29/2006 - Sub-folders for Patients
  29. 09/25/2006 - Sub-folders for Doctors
  30. 08/27/2006 - Sub-folders for Procedure Codes
  31. 08/21/2006 - Sub-folders for Insurance Carriers
  32. 08/15/2006 - Sub-folders for Diagnosis Codes
  33. 08/07/2006 - Sub-folders
  34. 07/22/2006 - Labels - Insurance Carrier and Referral Source Labels
  35. 07/17/2006 - Labels - Recall Labels
  36. 06/30/2006 - Labels - Birthday Labels
  37. 05/15/2006 - Labels - Patient Labels
  38. 05/07/2006 - Helpers - PIN And Facility Numbers (Boxes 24k, 32, & 33)
  39. 04/28/2006 - Helpers - Credit Types
  40. 04/24/2006 - Helpers - Comments and Reasons
  41. 04/17/2006 - Helpers - Box 21 Groups
  42. 04/10/2006 - Helpers - Zip Codes
  43. 04/02/2006 - Reports - Printing Superbills
  44. 03/25/2006 - Patient Batch Billing - Filing Statements Electronically
  45. 03/10/2006 - Patient Batch Billing - Advanced Filters and Reprints
  46. 03/04/2006 - Patient Batch Billing - Exclude Accounts
  47. 02/25/2006 - Patient Batch Billing - Include Accounts With ... Filters
  48. 02/17/2006 - Patient Batch Billing - Include Accounts With At Least This Much Due
  49. 02/14/2006 - Patient Batch Billing - Edit Header
  50. 02/04/2006 - Patient Batch Billing - Output Options
  51. 01/27/2006 - Patient Batch Billing - Adding Interest
  52. 01/20/2006 - Patient Batch Billing - Preprinted Forms
  53. 01/13/2006 - Patient Batch Billing - Include/Exclude Charges
  54. 01/08/2006 - Patient Batch Billing - Sort Order and Dates
  55. 12/19/2005 - Batch Billing Insurance - Claims Preview
  56. 12/12/2005 - Batch Billing Insurance - Reprints
  57. 12/05/2005 - Batch Billing Insurance - ADVANCED Filters (Part 4)
  58. 11/21/2005 - Batch Billing Insurance - Filters (Part 3)
  59. 11/14/2005 - Batch Billing Insurance - Filters (Part 2)
  60. 11/07/2005 - Batch Billing Insurance - Filters (Part 1)
  61. 10/31/2005 - Batch Billing Insurance - Sorting Claims
  62. 10/24/2005 - Batch Billing - Reviewing The Bills/Claims WITHOUT Marking Them As Billed
  63. 10/17/2005 - Reports - Custom Reports (Part 5 - Patient Summary)
  64. 10/10/2005 - Reports - Custom Reports (Part 4 - Special Formatting)
  65. 10/03/2005 - Reports - Custom Reports (Part 3 - Using The Dictionary)
  66. 09/26/2005 - Reports - Custom Reports (Part 2)
  67. 09/19/2005 - Reports - Custom Reports (Part 1)
  68. 09/12/2005 - Reports - User Activity Report
  69. 09/05/2005 - Reports - Daily Ledger Report
  70. 08/29/2005 - Reports - Patient Statistics Report
  71. 08/22/2005 - Reports - Aging Balances Report
  72. 08/15/2005 - Reports - Patients In Hospital
  73. 08/08/2005 - Reports - Insurance Reimbursement Reports
  74. 08/01/2005 - Reports - CPT - Procedural Transaction Report
  75. 07/25/2005 - Reports - Patients With Insurance Report
  76. 07/18/2005 - Reports - Referral Sources Reports
  77. 07/11/2005 - Reports - ICD9 Diagnosis Reports
  78. 07/04/2005 - Reports - Billing Versus Payment
  79. 06/27/2005 - Reports - Percent Each Doctor
  80. 06/20/2005 - Reports - Patient Data Sheet
  81. 06/13/2005 - Reports - Using The Rest Of The Toolbar Options
  82. 06/06/2005 - Reports - Searching For A Text String
  83. 05/30/2005 - Reports - Copying A Single Page Of A Report
  84. 05/23/2005 - Reports - Printing
  85. 05/16/2005 - Reports - Saving Or Exporting To A File
  86. 05/09/2005 - Reports - Using The Report Viewer Table Of Contents
  87. 05/02/2005 - Fine Tuning Your Electronic Claims File - Between Forms Option
  88. 04/25/2005 - HCFA Horizontal Alignment
  89. 04/18/2005 - Adjusting HCFA Vertical Alignment (Up/Down) Per Line For Printing
  90. 04/11/2005 - Adjusting The HCFA Form Location - The Whole Page
  91. 04/04/2005 - Printing Secondary Insurance Claims In Batch
  92. 03/28/2005 - Formatting Dollar Amounts For the HCFA 1500
  93. 03/21/2005 - HCFA Items To Print
  94. 03/14/2005 - Electronic Claims Files
  95. 03/07/2005 - Dates On Insurance Claims
  96. 02/28/2005 - Referral Sources And Box 17
  97. 02/21/2005 - Monitoring The Progress Of Your Backups
  98. 02/14/2005 - Making An Eye Catching Comment In A Patient's Account
  99. 02/07/2005 - Selecting Diagnosis Codes for HCFA Box 21
  100. 01/31/2005 - Box 23 - Prior Authorization, CLIA, and More...
  101. 01/24/2005 - How To Use The Recall Date
  102. 01/17/2005 - Quick Comments For Charges
  103. 01/10/2005 - Applying Multiple Charges For The Same Patient
  104. 01/03/2005 - How to search the Tip Archive web page
  105. 12/27/2004 - Leaving Charge Off Form
  106. 12/20/2004 - Entering Box 24A From And To Service Date
  107. 12/13/2004 - Using EPSDT - Box 24H
  108. 12/06/2004 - Using Place Of Service (POS) - Box 24B
  109. 11/30/2004 - Using Modifiers
  110. 11/22/2004 - How To NOT Mess Up Your Daily Ledger (Posting)
  111. 11/15/2004 - Sorting A Grid Display
  112. 11/08/2004 - Using The On-line Manual
  113. 11/01/2004 - Entering Dates Via Key-ins
  114. 10/25/2004 - Entering Dates Using The Calendar
  115. 10/18/2004 - Send Bill To Other
  116. 10/11/2004 - Fiddling Around with (Windows) Folders (courtesy of Microsoft eTips)
  117. 10/04/2004 - What Are Ins1, Ins2, Ptnt, and Other?
  118. 09/27/2004 - Where "Not" To Keep Important Files
  119. 09/20/2004 - Showing/Hiding The Folder List And Button Bar
  120. 09/13/2004 - Changing Text Fonts In MedLook Patient Notes
  121. 08/30/2004 - Bold, Italics, And Underlined Notes
  122. 08/23/2004 - Saving Graphics In Your Patient's Notes
  123. 08/16/2004 - Patient Notes In Table Format
  124. 08/09/2004 - Header Information For Patient Notes
  125. 08/02/2004 - Changing The Notes Editor
  126. 07/26/2004 - Keyboard Macro To Insert Date At End Of Patient Notes
  127. 07/19/2004 - Re-indexing With The Database Analyzer
  128. 07/12/2004 - Using Procedure Codes with Modifiers and TOS
  129. 07/05/2004 - Fundamental Window Manipulations
  130. 06/28/2004 - Box 17 of the HCFA 1500
  131. 06/21/2004 - HCFA Claims Form - Where Is Box 19 Entered?
  132. 06/14/2004 - Using the Programs Menu - Add-in Programs
  133. 06/07/2004 - Using the Programs Menu - System Shortcuts
  134. 05/31/2004 - Customizing Patient Summary To Include Patient Copay
  135. 05/24/2004 - Entering A Debit
  136. 05/17/2004 - A One Step Payment, Write-off, And Adjustment
  137. 05/10/2004 - HCFA 1500 Box 32
  138. 05/03/2004 - Grouping The Patient Transaction Grid
  139. 04/26/2004 - Handling A Patient Refund
  140. 04/19/2004 - How To Go About Solving Problems
  141. 04/12/2004 - Auto-sizing Columns
  142. 04/05/2004 - Moving Around in a Word Document
  143. 03/29/2004 - Using Disk Cleanup
  144. 03/22/2004 - Folder Navigation Without Toolbars, Button Bars, or Folder List
  145. 03/15/2004 - Resetting the Toolbars
  146. 03/08/2004 - Postponing a Patient's Bill
  147. 03/01/2004 - MedLook 2.0, the Manual, Subscription Pricing, and Dummies books

Tips beginning 03/01/2004 are from MedLook 2.0. The tips below are from version 1 of MedLook. Most are still relevent, but you might notice some differences.

For example, tip 23. 09/08/2003 Backups, uses the Copy To menu option to perform the backup operation. While this method will still work, MedLook 2.0 contains a backup option that will compress the database files into a single ZIP archive file, thus saving space on your backup media.

  1. 02/23/2004 - View Defaults - How to get them back
  2. 02/16/2004 - Using the Show Fields Option
  3. 02/09/2004 - Table View vs. Card View
  4. 02/02/2004 - The Status Bar
  5. 01/27/2004 - Using The Group By Box
  6. 01/19/2004 - Formatting A Grid Display
  7. 01/13/2004 - A Simple Patient Sheet
  8. 12/29/2003 - Creating a New Item in Medlook
  9. 12/22/2003 - Display or Print - which to use?
  10. 12/15/2003 - Using the Patient Notes
  11. 12/08/2003 - Using Pre-printed Forms For Patient Billing
  12. 11/24/2003 - Compressing Large Reprint Files
  13. 11/17/2003 - Patient Labels for Charts
  14. 11/10/2003 - How To Check What Payments And Charges Were Last Entered
  15. 11/03/2003 - Printing a Customized Table of Patient Data
  16. 10/27/2003 - Entering Multiple Charges With Multiple Diagnosis Code Sets
  17. 10/20/2003 - Keyboard (or Mouse-less) Navigation of MedLook
  18. 10/13/2003 - Handling Overpayments
  19. 10/06/2003 - Starting MedLook on Computer Startup
  20. 09/29/2003 - How to Remove a Payment From a Charge.
  21. 09/22/2003 - Searching For Patients By Name.
  22. 09/15/2003 - Entering City, State and Zip for Patients the Fast Way.
  23. 09/08/2003 - Backups
  24. 09/01/2003 - Multiple Selections
  25. 08/25/2003 - Drop-Down Lists

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