| DESCRIPTION |
This file contains the data used in the compilation of the average
Fields 2.01 - 2.11 contain the unbilled inpatient and outpatient
totals for the month used in creating the unbilled amounts bulletin
and report.
NOTE: Fields .02 - .16, 19, and 20 will no longer be used for
storing and configuring average/unbilled totals and will
be phased out at a later date.
This data is generally maintained by two options queued to run once
inpatient bill totals and the monthly unbilled amounts bulletin and
each month. The first option will update the monthly and yearly totals
fields. The second option will search the CLAIMS TRACKING file for
unbilled episodes of care and should be run on the 1st or second day
of the month.
There are two user options which are available to regenerate the
reports. The automatically queued options will not write over
previously compiled data. The user queued options will write over
previously compliled data. Sites who modify the data in this file
should be aware that the user queued options will overwrite manual
report.
changes.
Per VHA Directive 10-93-142, this file definition should not be modified.
The data is in two parts:
Fields 1.01 - 1.14 contain the inpatient claim and episode totals
for the month and prior 12 months used in configuring the average
inpatient bill totals.
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