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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 09:10:44 -0400
From: Deborah Bergeron <deborah....@avhnh.org>
Cc: medit...@mtusers.com, "Small, Lauren" <LSm...@fmh.org>
Subject: Re: [MT-L] How often do you require Care Plan documentation?
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Lauren
Below is an excerpt from our policy. Of note is the sentence "via the
process intervention screen". Because Nursing is reviewing the PI screen

every shift, adding, completing changing interventions, she is updating
the care plan. We have used this method for 10 years and have passed
several CMS inspections with no issues.
Deb

The registered nurse may choose an appropriate plan of care from the
established NUR Plan of Care dictionary and must review and
individualize it to meet the patient?s care needs via the
process intervention screen. Upon completing the initial plan of care,
the system will record the name and title of the staff person completing

the process.

Editing the Plan of Care
The plan of care is reviewed at least every shift for appropriateness to

patient?s care and condition via the process intervention screen.
Review of the plan of care includes continued individualization
regarding existing interventions,additional interventions, text and
frequencies by the nurse caring for the patient.

On 5/21/2010 2:38 PM, Brian Golden wrote:
> Our policy reads once a day, but nurses are encouraged to do it every
> shift (generally the 8-12hr shifts) so that it gets done once a day.
>
> Brian Golden
> Clinical Applications Coordinator
> bgo...@sehosp.org
> (573) 651-5827
> Southeast Missouri Hospital
> 1701 Lacey St. Cape Girardeau, MO 63701
> www.southeastmissourihospital.com
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> [mailto:meditech-...@mtusers.com] On Behalf Of Small, Lauren
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 12:53 PM
> To: medit...@mtusers.com
> Subject: [MT-L] How often do you require Care Plan documentation?
>
> Hi all! We are currently redesigning our nursing documentation. We
> have designed a new Care Plan Intervention that allows the RN to
> document the status of the problem (improved, declining, etc) and also
a
> free text box to write what they are doing with the patient in regards
> to that problem. Our Clin Specs have written into a new policy that
RNs
> must address/document against every problem in the Care Plan every
> shift, even if they just come in for a short shift (like 4 hours).
The
> nurse superusers on my project team feel this is way too much
> documentation. I am looking for what other facilities require in
terms
> of Care Plan documentation. We will be having a meeting with
management
> soon, and I'd like to be able to present what other facilities
require.
> We are Magic 5.63, but would be interested in all replies!
> Thanks in advance!
> Lauren
>
> Lauren Small, RN, BSN
> Clinical Applications Analyst
> Frederick Memorial Healthcare System
> 240-566-3625
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 09:48:05 -0400
From: "Wiley, Laura" <Wil...@sjchs.org>
To: <medit...@mtusers.com>
Subject: [MT-L] Meditech Bed Board system
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Our Hospital is looking into the Meditech Bed Board system.

If someone could answer the questions below, we would greatly appreciate
it.

Thank you for your time.

General Questions:

How many beds?

What is your average daily census?

Transport Questions:

Do you have a centralized transport?

How many employees?

Did you move from another system or manual to Meditech's Bed Board?

Has this change increased your productivity for Transport?

What WAS your turn around time for transport?

What is it now?

Were you able to reduce FTE's?

House Keeping Questions:

Has this change increased your productivity for House Keeping?

How many employees?

What WAS your turn around time for House Keeping?

What is it now?

Were you able to reduce FTE's?

Room Assignment Questions:

Has this change increased your productivity for Room Assignment?

How many employees?

How do you manage the process of adding a reservation when no bed's are
available?

Who does your bed assignments?

How is the communication to Bed Czar before bed entered into system?

Laura D Wiley

IS Dept

St. Joseph's/Candler Health System

Laura D Wiley

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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 08:51:57 -0500
From: "Koch, Bob" <bk...@affinityhealth.org>
To: "'medit...@mtusers.com'" <medit...@mtusers.com>
Subject: [MT-L] Single Dose Vial Charge Changes Magic 5.61
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Good morning,
I was asked to pose the question below. Any thoughts would be
appreciated.

Hi Bob,
Can you put a question on the Meditech L-list to find out how other
sites are handling the billing of single dose vials for outpatients?

This won't be easy to set up. Every single dose vial that we use for
outpatients will probably need a separate drug dictionary entry that
charges for the exact dose, plus another drug dictionary entry that will
charge for the exact waste with the JW modifier. For inpatients, (and
non-Medicare outpatients?) we'll want to continue the current practice
of charging for the whole vial. That could mean 3 DD entries for every
drug that this applies too. I'm wondering if other sites enter 2 orders
for each patient, one for the dose given and one for the amount wasted.

Thanks,

Deb LaStofka, RPh
St. Elizabeth Hospital
920-738-2672

Bob Koch
Sr Clinical Systems Analyst
Affinity Health System
Appleton, WI 54915
Phone/Fax 920.628.9425
mailto:bk...@affinityhealth.org

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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 09:57:39 -0400
From: "Rechtin, Beverly" <Beverly...@trihealth.com>
To: <medit...@mtusers.com>
Subject: [MT-L] keeping track of authorized visits in CWS
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Good Morning Everyone,

I have a question from our Scheduling area. Has anyone out there come
up with a good way to track all the appointments associated with an
authorization so that additional appointments not authorized are not
booked? For example: A patient is authorized for 5 visits to PT for a
particular modality. How do you make the sure the patient doesn't get
booked for a 6th without obtaining more authorization? How would someone
in your facility know if this is visit 2 or visit 5 of the authorized
visits?

We are using RCR accounts for therapy, but we discharge all accounts at
the end of the month and re-register those with outstanding appointments

Any input appreciated. We are just trying to improve our processes and
one of you always seems to have a creative idea.

Thanks

Bev

Bev Rechtin

Sr. Applications Analyst

TriHealth Information Systems

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Message: 9
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 08:00:06 -0600
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Subject: Re: [MT-L] Interested in how sites are dealing with two
accounts opened for one patient same day when Medicare
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Same process, we use the BAR comment field to note which account charges
were moved to. This appears on the main Process Account routine, so is
easy to locate.

Cindy Bodnar-Anderson
IS, Regional Health

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Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 5:49 AM
To: Angela Rittershaus; Melody Filley; medit...@mtusers.com
Subject: Re: [MT-L] Interested in how sites are dealing with two
accountsopenedfor one patient same day when Medicare

Just curious, if Medicare audits an account and requests documentation,
what is your process when the account number billed does not equal the
one with the documentation? How do those pulling documentation know
which other account to look for the documentation on?

Paul Goedicke
Clinical Analyst III
Jackson County Memorial Hospital
1200 E. Pecan Street
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Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 9:20 AM
To: Melody Filley; medit...@mtusers.com
Subject: Re: [MT-L] Interested in how sites are dealing with two
accountsopenedfor one patient same day when Medicare

We leave all documentation, reports, orders, etc... On the appropriate
account. Medical Records runs a 72hr report and forwards accounts that
should be "linked" to our BAR Charge person. He then reverses charges
off one account and rebatches to the appropriate account. This way all
charges are on one claim that gets submitted to Medicare and yet
everyone else can find what they need in the EMR.
Thanks.

Angie Rittershaus
Business Office ED/
System Support Supervisor
Brookings Health System

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[mailto:meditech-...@mtusers.com] On Behalf Of Melody Filley
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 1:29 PM
To: medit...@mtusers.com
Subject: [MT-L] Interested in how sites are dealing with two accounts
openedfor one patient same day when Medicare

I would greatly appreciate learning how other sites deal with the issue
of having two accounts opened for one Medicare patient with the same
date of service. We are dealing with signed reports and results posted
through interface having to be moved to one account. What a mess and a
manual data entry nightmare. I can't imagine what will happen when we
go up on nursing documentation and this occurs. If you have a process
in place to successfully handle this I'd appreciate hearing from you.

Thanks,

Melody Filley

Health Information System Engineer

Atchison Hospital

Atchison, KS 66002

www.southeastmissourihospital.com

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Message: 10
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 14:02:22 +0000
From: "Griffin, Paul" <PGri...@emersonhosp.org>
To: "'Koch, Bob'" <bk...@affinityhealth.org>,
"'medit...@mtusers.com'" <medit...@mtusers.com>
Subject: Re: [MT-L] Single Dose Vial Charge Changes Magic 5.61
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Hi Bob,

We opened a task with MEDITECH regarding the new JW codes from CMS. They
are aware of the issue. For now, it appears no coding has been done as
of yet, but this new system goes live on July 31st of his year, so they
better get to it.

Paul

Paul E. Griffin, R.Ph
Pharmacy Informatics
Emerson Hospital

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[mailto:meditech-...@mtusers.com] On Behalf Of Koch, Bob
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 9:52 AM
To: 'medit...@mtusers.com'
Subject: [MT-L] Single Dose Vial Charge Changes Magic 5.61

Good morning,
I was asked to pose the question below. Any thoughts would be
appreciated.

Hi Bob,
Can you put a question on the Meditech L-list to find out how other
sites are handling the billing of single dose vials for outpatients?

This won't be easy to set up. Every single dose vial that we use for
outpatients will probably need a separate drug dictionary entry that
charges for the exact dose, plus another drug dictionary entry that will
charge for the exact waste with the JW modifier. For inpatients, (and
non-Medicare outpatients?) we'll want to continue the current practice
of charging for the whole vial. That could mean 3 DD entries for every
drug that this applies too. I'm wondering if other sites enter 2 orders
for each patient, one for the dose given and one for the amount wasted.

Thanks,

Deb LaStofka, RPh
St. Elizabeth Hospital
920-738-2672

Bob Koch
Sr Clinical Systems Analyst
Affinity Health System
Appleton, WI 54915
Phone/Fax 920.628.9425
mailto:bk...@affinityhealth.org

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Message: 11
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 10:09:22 -0400
From: Pam Gerbis <pge...@meadowsregional.org>
To: Meditech-L <medit...@MTUsers.com>
Subject: [MT-L] Departmental Reports in Magic 5.63
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Good Monday L'ers

Several years ago we changed from headers on Departmental Reports to NPR

fragments with bar codes. We have had continuing problems ever since
(task open since 12/08).

First we encountered the error message on the top of page 2 on some
reports (Printing Error - Contact Data Processing). The fragment
printed, followed by the error message and that was it for the report.
We have had problems with printing both to LOCAL and Meditech printers.

This clear up with the 5.63 upgrade.

Now we are encountering pages that print one line on Discharge
Instructions and we end up with 9 pages on a 6 page report. I thought
that this was due to multiple sections listed within the report so I
combined all sections. This seemed to work for a brief time until we
upgraded to 5.63. Now we are back to the extra one line pages.

Meditech states that it's the fragment but has no clue how to fix.
Medical Records wants the bar codes on the reports for scanning (patient

account and Form IDs). This issue is back to Meditech Development which

we all know is a endless, black rabbit hole.

Has anyone experienced/solved this issue?

Thanks for helping.

Pam.

Pamela R. Gerbis, RN, MSN
Clinical Support Analyst
Meadows Regional Medical Center
Vidalia, GA 30457
912-277-2153

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Message: 12
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 08:11:14 -0600
From: "Arvin, Kim" <kim_...@parkviewmc.com>
To: <medit...@mtusers.com>
Subject: [MT-L] Meditech Magic NPR Transfer Back Report
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Good morning L,

I am looking for a transfer back report. We are trying to track
patients that transfer out of NICU to a regular floor and then have to
transfer back to NICU. Does anyone have a report that tracks this?
Thanks in advance!

Kim Arvin
Applications Analyst/Programmer
Parkview Medical Center
400 West 16th Street
Pueblo, CO 81003
719-584-4726

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Message: 13
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 10:32:44 -0400
From: Charles Downs <Charle...@wchsys.org>
To: "Koch, Bob" <bk...@affinityhealth.org>, "'medit...@mtusers.com'"
<medit...@mtusers.com>
Subject: Re: [MT-L] Single Dose Vial Charge Changes Magic 5.61
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I started this discussion a couple of weeks ago, so you might want
to check the archives for responses. The bottom line is that Meditech
does not have this functionality nor will they have it by 7/31. After a
lot of discuession here and on the ASHP informactics lits serve, it
appears that CMS is leaving it up to the fiscal intermediariers how to
handle this requirement. I called our billing department last week and
asked
that they set up a conference call with Highmark, our FI, so hopefully
we can find out some answers as to how to meet this new requirement.
Also, I suggested that ASHP start advocating for a delay since from
what I gathered off of the ASHP informatics listserve, there is not a
single vendor out there with the functionality needed to address this
issue (Epic seems to have a partial solution, but from what I see, it
isn't a seemless solution, which is what we need).
I would suggest that everyone keep on Meditech for a solution (and give
them you ideas as to how this would be accomplished), plus work with
your professional organizations to get this delayed (as we did with the
NDC requirement).
Charlie
Charles Downs Pharm.D.
IT Pharmacists
Washington County Hospital
Hagerstown, MD, 21740
301-790-8904

________________________________________
From: meditech-...@mtusers.com [meditech-...@mtusers.com] On
Behalf Of Koch, Bob [bk...@affinityhealth.org]
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 9:51 AM
To: 'medit...@mtusers.com'
Subject: [MT-L] Single Dose Vial Charge Changes Magic 5.61

Good morning,
I was asked to pose the question below. Any thoughts would be
appreciated.

Hi Bob,
Can you put a question on the Meditech L-list to find out how other
sites are handling the billing of single dose vials for outpatients?

This won't be easy to set up. Every single dose vial that we use for
outpatients will probably need a separate drug dictionary entry that
charges for the exact dose, plus another drug dictionary entry that will
charge for the exact waste with the JW modifier. For inpatients, (and
non-Medicare outpatients?) we'll want to continue the current practice
of charging for the whole vial. That could mean 3 DD entries for every
drug that this applies too. I'm wondering if other sites enter 2 orders
for each patient, one for the dose given and one for the amount wasted.

Thanks,

Deb LaStofka, RPh
St. Elizabeth Hospital
920-738-2672

Bob Koch
Sr Clinical Systems Analyst
Affinity Health System
Appleton, WI 54915
Phone/Fax 920.628.9425
mailto:bk...@affinityhealth.org

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Message: 14
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 09:41:54 -0500
From: Julia Carter <julia....@Cpeople.org>
To: Charles Downs <Charle...@wchsys.org>, "Koch, Bob"
<bk...@affinityhealth.org>, "'medit...@mtusers.com'"
<medit...@mtusers.com>
Subject: Re: [MT-L] Single Dose Vial Charge - REMINDER
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I'd like to point out Charlie's first statement:

"I started this discussion a couple of weeks ago, so you might want to
check the archives for responses."

I STRONGLY encourage everyone to post all responses to the List so that
we have a complete archival when the same questions come up again. If
there have been "private" discussions about this topic, they will not be
in the archives and anyone who looks in the archives won't benefit, so
we go 'round and 'round on the same issues.

Not picking on this specific issue or people, just using it as an
example. Charlie's comment illustrates it perfectly.

Thanks for your cooperation. :-) Happy Monday!!

Julia
List Moderator

Julia Carter, CPAR
Senior Consultant
Consultant People
396 W Main St
Lewisville, TX 75057
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-----Original Message-----
From: meditech-...@mtusers.com
[mailto:meditech-...@mtusers.com] On Behalf Of Charles Downs
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 10:33 AM
To: Koch, Bob; 'medit...@mtusers.com'
Subject: Re: [MT-L] Single Dose Vial Charge Changes Magic 5.61

I started this discussion a couple of weeks ago, so you might want
to check the archives for responses. The bottom line is that Meditech
does not have this functionality nor will they have it by 7/31. After a
lot of discuession here and on the ASHP informactics lits serve, it
appears that CMS is leaving it up to the fiscal intermediariers how to
handle this requirement. I called our billing department last week and
asked
that they set up a conference call with Highmark, our FI, so hopefully
we can find out some answers as to how to meet this new requirement.
Also, I suggested that ASHP start advocating for a delay since from
what I gathered off of the ASHP informatics listserve, there is not a
single vendor out there with the functionality needed to address this
issue (Epic seems to have a partial solution, but from what I see, it
isn't a seemless solution, which is what we need).
I would suggest that everyone keep on Meditech for a solution (and give
them you ideas as to how this would be accomplished), plus work with
your professional organizations to get this delayed (as we did with the
NDC requirement).
Charlie
Charles Downs Pharm.D.
IT Pharmacists
Washington County Hospital
Hagerstown, MD, 21740
301-790-8904

________________________________________
From: meditech-...@mtusers.com [meditech-...@mtusers.com] On
Behalf Of Koch, Bob [bk...@affinityhealth.org]
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 9:51 AM
To: 'medit...@mtusers.com'
Subject: [MT-L] Single Dose Vial Charge Changes Magic 5.61

Good morning,
I was asked to pose the question below. Any thoughts would be
appreciated.

Hi Bob,
Can you put a question on the Meditech L-list to find out how other
sites are handling the billing of single dose vials for outpatients?

This won't be easy to set up. Every single dose vial that we use for
outpatients will probably need a separate drug dictionary entry that
charges for the exact dose, plus another drug dictionary entry that will
charge for the exact waste with the JW modifier. For inpatients, (and
non-Medicare outpatients?) we'll want to continue the current practice
of charging for the whole vial. That could mean 3 DD entries for every
drug that this applies too. I'm wondering if other sites enter 2 orders
for each patient, one for the dose given and one for the amount wasted.

Thanks,

Deb LaStofka, RPh
St. Elizabeth Hospital
920-738-2672

Bob Koch
Sr Clinical Systems Analyst
Affinity Health System
Appleton, WI 54915
Phone/Fax 920.628.9425
mailto:bk...@affinityhealth.org

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Message: 15
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 10:49:41 -0400
From: "Manzo, Peter M." <PMM...@PARTNERS.ORG>
To: <medit...@mtusers.com>
Subject: [MT-L] PHA report help
Message-ID:
<7DF9FBE5D62DEF4FB48A...@PHSXMB16.partners.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Hello Meditech-L, our Pharmacy director is looking for a Drug
Utilization
Statistics report with the order type included. Does anyone have
anything
similar they might be willing to share? Thanks in advance.

Peter Manzo
Applications Analyst
Spaulding Hospital Cambridge
1575 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Phone: 617.758.5320
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Message: 16
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 10:26:09 -0500
From: "White,Matt F" <MFW...@freemanhealth.com>
To: "medit...@mtusers.com" <medit...@mtusers.com>
Subject: [MT-L] %PHA.MAR.allergies and ADR comments
Message-ID:

<E2E992311A057E4486241...@EXCHMBCLUSTER.freemanhealth.
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Happy Monday L!
We are Magic 5.63 and I was working on the Meditech KB article 20522
incorporating ADR's to our PHA.PAT view. I got it working, however it
doesn't pull in the ADR comments. Has anyone got this to work? I found
some older documentation but it the syntax won't translate to this
version.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Matt

Matthew White
IT Coordinator
Freeman Health System
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Message: 17
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 10:41:53 -0500
From: "Paul Goedicke" <PaulGo...@jcmh.com>
To: "Julia Carter" <julia....@Cpeople.org>, "Charles Downs"
<Charle...@wchsys.org>, "Koch, Bob"
<bk...@affinityhealth.org>,
<medit...@mtusers.com>
Subject: Re: [MT-L] Single Dose Vial Charge - REMINDER
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Julia, I would guess most of us have just been sitting here with the
deer-in-the-headlights-stare, just trying to digest what Charlie is
trying to deal with.
I am guilty sometimes of communicating off-list with some members, but
try to share solutions. Even those of us more experienced (or is it just
older, after working with Meditech many years?) hesitate to toss out
suggestions or comments, for fear of chastisement (or we use honest
language not appropriate for the tender ears of some list-members).
As you indicated, we need to remember not only to respond to the list,
but listmembers probably need to be reminded to search the archives, and
other resources, for potential solutions before posting their questions,
unless a new regulatory issue, like Charlie had asked about.

I would also like to share another tool some of us forget to use when
we're really busy fighting numerous issues - Meditech's Product
Development Resource Center Documentation Search, where you can search
the DTS'es available between your current Meditech version and the
latest available. I perform the search on "any" (like the 653 currently
developed for LAB since our 5.63 update), then use a search through the
browser to find potential matches. I have discovered potential solutions
to at least 3 of our Meditech and LSS issues within the last couple of
weeks. It's a lot faster than waiting for support to do it (even though
that's part of what we pay them for).
Paul

Paul Goedicke
Clinical Analyst III
Jackson County Memorial Hospital
1200 E. Pecan Street
Altus, OK 73521
Phone (580) 379-5565
Fax (580) 379-5559
paulgo...@jcmh.com

I know everything. I just can't remember it all at once.

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From: meditech-...@mtusers.com
[mailto:meditech-...@mtusers.com]On Behalf Of Julia Carter
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 9:42 AM
To: Charles Downs; Koch, Bob; 'medit...@mtusers.com'
Subject: Re: [MT-L] Single Dose Vial Charge - REMINDER

I'd like to point out Charlie's first statement:

"I started this discussion a couple of weeks ago, so you might want to
check the archives for responses."

I STRONGLY encourage everyone to post all responses to the List so that
we have a complete archival when the same questions come up again. If
there have been "private" discussions about this topic, they will not be
in the archives and anyone who looks in the archives won't benefit, so
we go 'round and 'round on the same issues.

Not picking on this specific issue or people, just using it as an
example. Charlie's comment illustrates it perfectly.

Thanks for your cooperation. :-) Happy Monday!!

Julia
List Moderator

Julia Carter, CPAR
Senior Consultant
Consultant People
396 W Main St
Lewisville, TX 75057
http://www.cpeople.org
(229) 891-6668

-----Original Message-----
From: meditech-...@mtusers.com
[mailto:meditech-...@mtusers.com] On Behalf Of Charles Downs
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 10:33 AM
To: Koch, Bob; 'medit...@mtusers.com'
Subject: Re: [MT-L] Single Dose Vial Charge Changes Magic 5.61

I started this discussion a couple of weeks ago, so you might want
to check the archives for responses. The bottom line is that Meditech
does not have this functionality nor will they have it by 7/31. After a
lot of discuession here and on the ASHP informactics lits serve, it
appears that CMS is leaving it up to the fiscal intermediariers how to
handle this requirement. I called our billing department last week and
asked
that they set up a conference call with Highmark, our FI, so hopefully
we can find out some answers as to how to meet this new requirement.
Also, I suggested that ASHP start advocating for a delay since from
what I gathered off of the ASHP informatics listserve, there is not a
single vendor out there with the functionality needed to address this
issue (Epic seems to have a partial solution, but from what I see, it
isn't a seemless solution, which is what we need).
I would suggest that everyone keep on Meditech for a solution (and give
them you ideas as to how this would be accomplished), plus work with
your professional organizations to get this delayed (as we did with the
NDC requirement).
Charlie
Charles Downs Pharm.D.
IT Pharmacists
Washington County Hospital
Hagerstown, MD, 21740
301-790-8904

________________________________________
From: meditech-...@mtusers.com [meditech-...@mtusers.com] On
Behalf Of Koch, Bob [bk...@affinityhealth.org]
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 9:51 AM
To: 'medit...@mtusers.com'
Subject: [MT-L] Single Dose Vial Charge Changes Magic 5.61

Good morning,
I was asked to pose the question below. Any thoughts would be
appreciated.

Hi Bob,
Can you put a question on the Meditech L-list to find out how other
sites are handling the billing of single dose vials for outpatients?

This won't be easy to set up. Every single dose vial that we use for
outpatients will probably need a separate drug dictionary entry that
charges for the exact dose, plus another drug dictionary entry that will
charge for the exact waste with the JW modifier. For inpatients, (and
non-Medicare outpatients?) we'll want to continue the current practice
of charging for the whole vial. That could mean 3 DD entries for every
drug that this applies too. I'm wondering if other sites enter 2 orders
for each patient, one for the dose given and one for the amount wasted.

Thanks,

Deb LaStofka, RPh
St. Elizabeth Hospital
920-738-2672

Bob Koch
Sr Clinical Systems Analyst
Affinity Health System
Appleton, WI 54915
Phone/Fax 920.628.9425
mailto:bk...@affinityhealth.org

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Message: 18
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 10:52:59 -0500
From: "Carroll, Jodelle" <jcar...@affinityhealth.org>
To: "'Rogers, Janiece - MMC'" <Janiece...@chw.edu>, Martha
Bernechea <mbe...@valleyhealth.com>,
"medit...@mtusers.com"
<medit...@mtusers.com>
Subject: Re: [MT-L] Esign Time
Message-ID:

<DF0F904991CDA245A5B85...@EXAFFMBX01VS.ministryhealth.
net>

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

This is how I set up the field attribute for xx.final.sign.data:
DAT=FREE
JFY=L
LEN=40
VAL=(@MIS.USER.name[@final.sign.out],%Z.date.out(@final.sign.date),
VAL=@final.sign.entry.time)

JoDelle Carroll, MT(ASCP)
Affinity Health System Laboratory IS Analyst
St. Elizabeth Hospital Laboratory
Office: (920) 831-8394
Pager: (920) 554-1871
E-mail: jcar...@affinityhealth.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Rogers, Janiece - MMC [mailto:Janiece...@chw.edu]
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 12:45 PM
To: Martha Bernechea; medit...@mtusers.com
Subject: Re: [MT-L] Esign Time

Try pulling in this field in your report trailer:
xx.final.sign.out.data

Janiece Rogers, CLS II, MT(ASCP)

LIS Coordinator

Marian Medical Center

office ph # (805) 928-8849 **new

fax # (805) 928-5591 **new

cell # (805) 878-3708

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From: meditech-...@mtusers.com
[mailto:meditech-...@mtusers.com] On Behalf Of Martha Bernechea
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 8:55 AM
To: medit...@mtusers.com
Subject: [MT-L] Esign Time

Hello:

Can anyone share how they captured the electronic signature time on a
pathology sign out fragment.

Meditech's knowledge base article #6511 shows how to create a calculated
field but it does not work.

mbe...@valleyhealth.com

Martha Bernechea

Information Systems Analyst

Valley Health Systems

phone: 201 447-8235

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Message: 19
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 10:57:41 -0500
From: "Koch, Bob" <bk...@affinityhealth.org>
To: 'Charles Downs' <Charle...@wchsys.org>,
"'medit...@mtusers.com'" <medit...@mtusers.com>
Subject: Re: [MT-L] Single Dose Vial Charge Changes Magic 5.61
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Thank you for the follow up Charlie. I actually had searched the
archives but I guess I didn't find the "magic answer" that I was looking
for. I have opened a Meditech task and will get our billing dept to push
a little harder. Thanks again Charlie.

Bob Koch
Sr Clinical Systems Analyst
Affinity Health System
Appleton, WI 54915
Phone/Fax 920.628.9425
mailto:bk...@affinityhealth.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Downs [mailto:Charle...@wchsys.org]
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 9:33 AM
To: Koch, Bob; 'medit...@mtusers.com'
Subject: RE: Single Dose Vial Charge Changes Magic 5.61

I started this discussion a couple of weeks ago, so you might want
to check the archives for responses. The bottom line is that Meditech
does not have this functionality nor will they have it by 7/31. After a
lot of discuession here and on the ASHP informactics lits serve, it
appears that CMS is leaving it up to the fiscal intermediariers how to
handle this requirement. I called our billing department last week and
asked that they set up a conference call with Highmark, our FI, so
hopefully we can find out some answers as to how to meet this new
requirement.
Also, I suggested that ASHP start advocating for a delay since from
what I gathered off of the ASHP informatics listserve, there is not a
single vendor out there with the functionality needed to address this
issue (Epic seems to have a partial solution, but from what I see, it
isn't a seemless solution, which is what we need).
I would suggest that everyone keep on Meditech for a solution (and give
them you ideas as to how this would be accomplished), plus work with
your professional organizations to get this delayed (as we did with the
NDC requirement).
Charlie
Charles Downs Pharm.D.
IT Pharmacists
Washington County Hospital
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Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 9:51 AM
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Subject: [MT-L] Single Dose Vial Charge Changes Magic 5.61

Good morning,
I was asked to pose the question below. Any thoughts would be
appreciated.

Hi Bob,
Can you put a question on the Meditech L-list to find out how other
sites are handling the billing of single dose vials for outpatients?

This won't be easy to set up. Every single dose vial that we use for
outpatients will probably need a separate drug dictionary entry that
charges for the exact dose, plus another drug dictionary entry that will
charge for the exact waste with the JW modifier. For inpatients, (and
non-Medicare outpatients?) we'll want to continue the current practice
of charging for the whole vial. That could mean 3 DD entries for every
drug that this applies too. I'm wondering if other sites enter 2 orders
for each patient, one for the dose given and one for the amount wasted.

Thanks,

Deb LaStofka, RPh
St. Elizabeth Hospital
920-738-2672

Bob Koch
Sr Clinical Systems Analyst
Affinity Health System
Appleton, WI 54915
Phone/Fax 920.628.9425
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Barrett, Joanne

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May 26, 2010, 4:24:42 PM5/26/10

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Instead of an LI use a RL (Range List)

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Chip,
You need to create a macro with your 25 dispositions.

Joe

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Stewart, Donald

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May 26, 2010, 4:37:19 PM5/26/10

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Chip,

Set up a "start" macro like this:
1^/DISP["FIELD1"],
1^/DISP["FIELD2"]

until you have them all entered. Make sure the last one does not have a
comma after it. All the other should as above.

On page 2 selects add the following:
dis.disp (substitute the correct name) LI /DISP

On page 3 add a footnote as follows:
AL START start (you can substitute whatever name you called your start
macro)

That should do it.

Donald F. Stewart

Paul Goedicke

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A macro

Hey L-listers,

- Chip

Today's Topics:

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Hello,

Greg Park
DB Technology

Rutherford Hospital, Inc.

288 S. Ridgecrest Ave.

Rutherfordton, N.C. 28139

828-286-5529

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Hello,

Greg Park
DB Technology

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Stephanie

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Thanks,

Melody Filley

Health Information System Engineer

Atchison Hospital

Atchison, KS 66002

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the process.

Email: deborah....@avhnh.org

Meditech Magic 5.61 Site

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General Questions:

How many beds?

Transport Questions:

How many employees?

What is it now?

House Keeping Questions:

How many employees?

What is it now?

Room Assignment Questions:

How many employees?

Laura D Wiley

IS Dept

Laura D Wiley

IS Dept

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Good Morning Everyone,

Thanks

Bev

Bev Rechtin

Sr. Applications Analyst

TriHealth Information Systems

Office: (513)569-6838

Fax: (513)569-6195

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Thanks,

Melody Filley

Health Information System Engineer

Atchison Hospital

Atchison, KS 66002