| DESCRIPTION OF ENHANCEMENTS |
they should have been.
Solution:
The post-install job for patch PSO*7*137 identified potential prescription
fills that should have charged a copay. The starting date for examining
whether the released fills should have been charged a copay was
02/04/2002 (the date that the $7 copay amount went into effect). A
post-install job for this patch will use the global created by patch
PSO*7*137 to do the back-billing for the identified fills. If the global
has been removed from the system, the identification portion will be done
One site reported an excessive number of prescriptions getting
again by the post-install of this patch before doing the back-billing.
A MailMan message with a subject of "Subj: Outpatient Pharmacy Copay
Clean-up" will be sent to the patch installer and holders of the PSO COPAY
key indicating the number of fills that were successfully billed. If any
fills were billed, the MailMan message will contain information on how to
print a report by patient name of prescription fills that were billed.
A second MailMan message will be sent back to FORUM to some outpatient
pharmacy developers. This MailMan message's information will be compiled
automatically (incorrectly) changed at release from Copay to No Copay
with messages from other sites and forwarded to the Austin Automation
Center for their use in addressing a mail-out to the veterans affected by
the back-billing.
with a reason of "Service Connected". It was determined that this was
happening because the Service Connected question does not apply for the
patient anymore, but the Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS) V. 3.0
sends the Service Connected question's answer from the renewed from or
copied from prescription. For non-service connected veterans, prescription
fills that were flagged as Service Connected were not charged a copay when
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