[MT-L] Seeking Meditech Magic PHA/BAR Configurations
Kristin Ater
We are currently cleaning up our drug dictionary with correct NDC#s so that when we load the AWP we can use PHA to calculate a good price based on markup formula. However, we've got to remove this custom described above so that the price is pulled from PHA instead of BAR. However, when we do that, we will lose our history of price changes by effective date. So, we are planning to script the price changes into BAR to keep BAR in sync with PHA.
QUESTION:
Seeking other Meditech Magic facilities who perhaps have dealt with this same issue - OR - those facility who would be gracious enough to share with us what their configuration is for PHA and BAR. How do you deal with this? How do you maintain a history of price changes by effective date? Or do you? Is it important to?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Have a great day!
Is there anything else I can do for you? I have the time.
Kristin M. Ater
Manager, Project Management Office
GSHS Administrative Services Organization
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Alan Miller
We're MAGIC 5.63. After each month's FSV update I download updated PHA charges and current BAR charges into separate files. I then run a query in MS-Access that compares the two and generates a spreadsheet with prices that have changed. These are then scripted back into BAR. The price charge history is thus maintained and the two modules are in sync.
Don't forget that to use current PHA charges, you need to set "Chg Editable" for each PHA item in BAR to "Y".
If you are comfortable working with Access, let me know and I'll send you the NPR report formats and the Access file. You could probably do the same thing with a straight
NPR solution, but I personally find it easier to do stuff like this outside of MediTech using better tools.
Alan Miller, RPh
Pharmacist Informaticist
Clinical Information Systems
Catawba Valley Medical Center
810 Fairgrove Church Road
Hickory, NC 28602
828-326-3611
>>> Kristin Ater <KA...@gsmc.org> 09/24/2010 10:52 >>>
Have a great day!
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Alan Miller
On second thought, this one is easy enough to do with just NPR. Attached is a report that starts in PHA.DRUG with "fragless" jumps to BAR.PROC. It makes a list of drugs whose PHA patient charges don't match the corresponding BAR items. It automatically opens a spreadsheet for you when it's done via Windows scripting. Be patient with the "Printing on" Status window when it's running - it looks like the report is hung but it will eventually clear.
HTH,
Alan
>>> Alan Miller 09/24/2010 11:12 >>>