MedLook Weekly Tip For 08/15/2006

The Diagnosis Codes sub-folder has only three entries at this time.  These sub-folders present financial information broken down per code.  They each have pretty much the same parameters just with differing time periods.  They include Diag Financials, Diag YTD Financials, and Diag Last Year’s Financials. They each show the Date, Description, # Times, Total ($), and Code. The Diag Financials by default groups the output per Code, then by Year, presenting the financial information for each code per month for all transactions (not year specific). 

The graphic below shows Diag Financials as the selected sub-folder.  Code 401.1 is shown in entirety having only three entries with one in 2006 and two in 2005.  Notice that the Total is computed per year and then for all the years.

The YTD Financials, as shown below, shows the same information but only for the current year.  Obviously the Last Year’s Financials will show the same grouping, etc., but will contain the data for last year.

The sorting, grouping, colors, fonts, etc., of the data layout can all be easily changed from the right click menu.  The default layout can also be easily restored from the right click menu.

One important thing to note is that some of these folders can take a considerable amount of time (minutes) to compute and display. That’s why they are broken up as they are.  Obviously the YTD figures should compute much faster than Last Year’s and both of these should be faster than the entire data set.  The more transactions you have in your database and the more codes you have entered, the longer the computation time.  The YTD and Last Year’s displays should be relatively quick.

Once the data is presented you can double click an entry to edit the code (not the transaction).  It is more likely that you will want to print the data out.  Simply select the records you want to print and select the File->Print option (or preview, etc.).

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