| DESCRIPTION OF ENHANCEMENTS |
1. At many sites the Risk Assessment Nurse Reviewers are involved with the
[SROA ENTER/EDIT] and Cardiac Risk Assessment Information (Enter/Edit)
[SROA CARDIAC ENTER/EDIT] menus.
o The Alert Coder Regarding Coding Issues [SROA CODE ISSUE] option will
not check the PFSS On/Off switch.
o The Alert Coder Regarding Coding Issues [SROA CODE ISSUE] option will
display basic surgery case information including Patient, Case Number,
Surgery Date, and Procedure.
o The Alert Coder Regarding Coding Issues [SROA CODE ISSUE] option will
display the following coded information: the PRINCIPAL CPT CODE, OTHER
CPT CODE, and PRINCIPAL DIAGNOSIS CODE.
Health Information Management Systems (HIMS) staff in determining the
o The Alert Coder Regarding Coding Issues [SROA CODE ISSUE] option will
allow the Reviewer to enter a free text comment field to send coding
concerns to the coder, as well as to members of a predefined mail group
identified in the CODE ISSUE MAIL GROUP parameter.
o Values for the CODING COMPLETED BY field (#.01) of the CODING
COMPLETED BY multiple (#136.011) of the SURGERY PROCEDURE/DIAGNOSIS
CODES file (#136) or the CODE ISSUE MAIL GROUP will be present when the
user selects the Alert Coder Regarding Coding Issues [SROA CODE ISSUE]
option. If neither are valued, the user will be notified that the
message cannot be sent without one of these two items defined.
final codes for a Surgery case. An Alert Coder Option will allow the Risk
o The CODE ISSUE MAIL GROUP field (#43) is added in the SURGERY SITE
PARAMETERS file (#133) to allow the site to create a designated mail
group for the Alert Coder Regarding Coding Issues [SROA CODE ISSUE]
option.
o The Surgery Site Parameters (Enter/Edit) [SROPARAM] option within
the Surgery Package Management Menu [SRO PACKAGE MANAGEMENT] option is
modified to allow entry and editing of the new CODE ISSUE MAIL GROUP.
2. When creating a request from a waiting list entry, the Surgery screen
server incorrectly displays "SCHEDULING" in the screen header. This patch
Assessment Nurse Reviewer to alert the coder if there is a question on the
makes a modification to display "REQUEST" instead.
3. This patch corrects problems with the two trigger cross references that
were added to the SITE field (#.01) of the SURGERY SITE PARAMETERS file
(#133) by patch SR*3*150.
Note: This patch includes a post-installation process that updates each
entry in the SURGERY SITE PARAMETERS file (#133) as follows:
- UPDATES TO PCE field (#18) is set to ALL CASES.
- ASK CLASSIFICATION QUESTIONS field (#19) is set to YES.
Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) or International Classification of
Diseases (ICD) codes on a Surgery case.
o The new Alert Coder Regarding Coding Issues [SROA CODE ISSUE] option
will appear on both the Non-Cardiac Assessment Information (Enter/Edit)
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