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We are happy to announce that we will be releasing Therap 9.2 on November 20, 2011! To learn more about the latest additions, please view the Release Notes for Therap 9.2.

Please note that, as we update the system the applications will be unavailable from:

04:00 a.m. to 05:00 a.m. EST on Sunday, November 20, 2011.

On November 20th we will be releasing Therap 9.2

Here are the draft release notes:

Pre-Vocational Services Hab Type for Users in New York New!

• From now on users in New York will be able to generate Hab Checklist for Pre-Vocational Services Hab Type. 
  
  On the Habilitation Form, you may select the Type of Habilitation Service as Pre-Vocational Services under Section 1: General Information. 
  
   
  
  Once you have created the Hab Plan for the Individual, you will be able to generate Hab Checklist. 
  
  
• A new feature has been introduced on the Report Criteria page where users will be able to select Hab Type as Pre-Vocation Hab from the drop down list. They may select Include Attendance Data as No in order to generate Hab Checklist for Pre-Vocational Services without the Attendance Data. 
  
   
  
  
• By clicking on the ‘Next’ button, you will be directed to the Hab Checklist for Pre-Vocational Services. 
  
   
  
  
• Billing Checklist for Pre-Vocational Services 
  
  Billing Checklist for Pre-Vocational Services can also be generated with attendance data. Select the ‘Include Attendance Data’ as ‘Yes’ on the Billing Checklist page. Once you have selected the appropriate options, you may click on the ‘Next’ button to generate the Billing Checklist. 
  
   
  
  You will be directed to the Billing Checklist report. 
  
   
  
  

Click here for more information on Hab Checklist and Billing Checklist for users in New York.

Hab Checklist

• Users will now be able to generate Hab Checklist including Attendance Data. In order to do so, users may select the ‘Include Attendance Data’ as Yes on the Report Criteria page. Once done, click on the ‘Next’ button in order to generate the report. 
  
   
  
   
  
  
  

  Billing Checklist

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• Billing Checklist can also be generated including Attendance data. In order to do so, users may select the ‘Include Attendance Data’ as Yes on the Billing Checklist page. Once done, click on the ‘Next’ button in order to generate the report. 
  
   
  
   
  
  
  

  Habilitation Plan

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• Discontinued Staff Action(s) under Valued Outcomes in Habilitation Plan are now highlighted with different colors in order to differentiate them from continued Staff Actions. 
  
   
  
  
  

  Billing Module Specific Changes

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  Changes made for 5010 Transition

• New ID Types in Billing Provider form 
  
  New ID Types have been introduced under the Identification Information section in the Billing Provider form. 
  
  1. State Licence Number
  2. Provider UPIN Number 
  
   
  
  
• Provider Commercial Number in Billing Provider form
  A new field; Provider Commercial Number has been added under the Identification Information section of the Billing Provider form. Users will now be able to enter their Provider’s commercial number, if appropriate.In general it should contain the legacy ID, which is required for 5010 transition. 
  
   
  
  
• Provider Address section
  Provider address should not contain PO Box number. 
  
   
  
  The number of digits to be entered in the ZIP field have been increased to 9. 
  
   
  
  A Warning message is displayed, if 9 digits are not entered in the ZIP field 
  
   
  
  
• Professional Claim type Service Description/Code 
  
  Primary Diagnosis Code and Diagnosis Code Pointer fields are required for Professional Claim while creating Service Description/Code. New field for ICD-9 and ICD-10 has been added, where ICD-9 will be selected by default. 
  
   
  
  Diagnosis Code should contain values without decimal points.

• Institutional Claim Template 
  
  Admission Type and Patient Status fields will be required while creating Institutional Claim Template. 
  
   
  
  

Billing Provider

Several enhancements have been made to the Billing Provider section. 

• Identification Information Section 
  
  NPI Number
  Users will now be able to enter alphanumeric values (consisting of or using both letters and numerals) in the NPI Number field. 
  
   
  
  

  ICD Code

  ICD Code drop down has been added before all the Diagnosis Code fields (located in Service Description/Code form, Service form and Claim forms) and default value is ICD-9, and ICD-10 is available as a choice. 
  
  

Billing Module – New York Specific Changes

Changes in Service Description/Code Form

• NY HAB PLAN VALIDATION section
  The Hab Plan Service Type field under the NY HAB PLAN VALIDATION section from now on will display all the 18 default Hab Plan Service Type as well as user defined Hab Plans. Users will now be able to choose the Hab Plan type which is most appropriate for them. 
  
   
  
  
• Institutional Claim section
  Use from Service Form option have been introduced under the Institutional Claim section in the Service Description/Code form. 
  
   
  
  If users select this option, it will enable the user to use the Locator Code from the Service form. 
  
   
  
  

  Changes in Service Form

  The Prior Authorization Number located in the Add Service Type Section of the Service Authorization Form, will now be included in the Claim Form 
  
  

We are planning a release for around November 20th.  This will include some updates for New York and our compliance with 5010 Electronic Billing Standards (more on this in another post)

The New York features are focussed on four areas:

1. IRMA Integration (still in development from the OPWDD side of things – so may not be able to be activated)
2. Addition of the Pre-Voc Hab Checklist
3. Inclusion of Attendance data on Hab Checklists
4. Clearer display of discontinued Staff Actions on Hab Plans

We will be showing off all of these at our Cortland, NY Regional Conference.  If you can’t make it there, we’ll be scheduling a bunch of webinars.

Let’s takle a quick look now though:

1. IRMA Interface

To use the IRMA interface you have to first download your TABS data from your IRMA account. We use this data becuase you names and numbers for individualas and programs may not exactly match the values inside TABS/IRMA.  We hope to be able to do some syncing in the future.

When you go to a GER and have completed the 147 State form, you will be able to complete a new IRMA State form:

Having completed the form, you then download a file to be sent to IRMA.  (The download+upload process was chosen by OPWDD)

You then log into IRMA and upload the file

2. Addition of the Pre-Voc Hab Checklist

You will now be able to generate a very pretty Pre-Voc Hab Checklist like this:

3. Inclusion of Attendance data on Hab Checklists

Not only can you generate these Hab Checklists, you can now choose where the start and end times come from (ISP Data or Attendance)

4. Clearer display of discontinued Staff Actions on Hab Plans

When you discontinue an ISP Program in order to change staff actions, it is important to still keep that ISP Program linked to the Hab Plan so that reports can be properly generated.

We will now make it more obvious which are the discontinued actions (I just don’t have a screen shot yet!)

Much more on this to come, be sure to stay in touch with Kevin and Stephen

:: Justin ::