AR Access to the Outpatient Encounter File    ICR (5040)

For the Hold Debt to DMC project the Accounts
Receivable (AR) software package is providing some new reports for the AR
clerks to use. For these new reports the Business Office requested that AR
include bills that have an episode of care within the previous 365 days and if
appropriate display the date of the most recent Outpatient Encounter. This is
to be done using the RESULTING FROM (#.04) field in the INTEGRATED BILLING
ACTION (#350) file which contains a soft-link back to the entry in any file
that caused this billing transaction to be set. One of these soft-links is to
the OUTPATIENT ENCOUNTER (#409.68) file which relates to DBIA 402 subscribed
to by the Integrated Billing package.

The AR package requires access to the DATE (#.01) field of the OUTPATIENT
ENCOUNTER (#409.68) based on its interface with the IB package.