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Therap National Provider Administrator Conference, February 7-9, 2012

We are thrilled to announce our next National Provider Administrator for all our existing and prospective users.

The three-day event will give us an opportunity to see where we are, what we have achieved, and what more we can do for the future.

Register before December 31, 2011 for the Early bird Discount.

Event highlights:

• Hands-on training on Therap modules including Individual Service Plans, Health Tracking and Billing
• Sessions for advanced level users and certified trainers
• User presentations on implementation and usage
• Focused sessions for States, counties and multi-state providers
• Brainstorming and requirement analysis for future upgrades
• Presentations by other vendors

Downloads:
Information Flyer
User Presentations Catalog
Preliminary Schedule (in black & white)

Venue & Accomodations:
Ramada East Hanover, New Jersey
130 Route 10 West, East Hanover, NJ 07936
Phone: (973) 386-5622
Note: Ask for “Therap Services” Group Rate: $92
(For Reservations made by 01/21/2012)

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Changes made for 5010 Transition

• New ID Types in Billing Provider form New!

  New ID Types have been introduced under the Identification Information section in the Billing Provider form.

  1. State License Number
  2. Provider UPIN Number

  

• Provider Commercial Number in Billing Provider form New!

  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

  The Provider Address should not contain P.O.Box number, in order to comply with the 5010 transition.

  

  In order to comply with the 5010 transition, the ZIP field now accommodates 9 digit zip codes.

  

  A warning message is displayed if the zip code is not 9 digits long.

  

  For more information on creating a new Billing Provider, please click here.

• Professional Claim type Service Description/Code

  Primary Diagnosis Code and Diagnosis Code Pointer fields are required to be filled in for Professional Claim. These fields are required in order to comply with the 5010 transition. A new drop-down menu is added for thePrimary Diagnosis Code field. ICD-9 will be selected by default.

  

  Diagnosis Code should contain values without decimal points.

  For more information on creating a new Billing Provider, please click here.

   

• Institutional Claim Template

  To comply with the 5010 transition, Admission Type and Patient Status fields, are required to be filled, while creating Institutional Claim Template.

  

  For more information please click here.

Changes in 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.

  

  For more information on creating a new Billing Provider, please click here.

Primary Diagnosis Code dropdown menu New!

ICD Code drop down menu has been added before all the Primary Diagnosis Code fields (located in Service Description/Code form, Service form and Claim forms). The default value is set as ICD-9.

We have just release the beta version of Therap 2012.0 for user testing.  This is a major component of our new release cycle process.

You can access this test version of the system at https://beta.TherapServices.net

You can find the draft release notes here.

I will go into much more detail about individual elements of what’s there in upcoming posts, but here is what is important to know:

• This is NOT the live Therap system.
• This is a test site and all data that is entered or altered will be deleted.
• The data that is in there is a copy of your real data (you still access using your regular login) and is stored as securely as real data, we will just delete it when we do the full release of 2012.0
• We expect to release 2012.0 on January 15th 2010
• We expect to be down for about 15 hours (more on preparations for this to come)
• Any feedback you can give us on this test release is invaluable, and the sooner you can give it to us the better
• When you click Live Help in the beta you will get a chance to try out our new service from Live Person (try it, it’s cool!)

Please get in touch if you have any questions at all

Its been a busy couple of months here in FL. Just this week our friends at Angels Unaware INC completed training  and are ready to go live with Therap. They are going to be great champions of the system.

The week prior we held a very successful Therap Conference in Central Florida. We had a great turnout from agencies around the state of FL.  Prior to that our friends at Arc of Martin Co went live with Therap with great success.

As the year winds down its great to look back at the growth of  Therap through out the state of FL.  Happy Holidays to all.

An Invitation to Support Providers

There will be a user group meeting on the 3rd of November.

1091 West Morse Blvd. – 2nd Floor,
Winter Park, FL 32789
Location phone number: 971-533-1683

The meeting starts at 10:00 am and ends at 1:00pm. Lunch is provided.

Therap’s software suite covers much of the required forms such as incident reporting, medication errors, progress notes, shift notes, logbooks, nurses notes, MAR, Emergency Data, ISPs, Individual’s Finance Management, and also billing. On top of the forms you have the ability to search for data quickly and to generate reports.

Maintain good quality documentation on the individuals you serve while reducing the time it takes to document. This way, you save more time to spend tending to the needs of the individuals you support.

Please bring a notebook computer if possible!

• Register* (No Registration Fees)

• Download Flyer

Therap Regional Conference: Focus on National Issues – CCHIT and Meaningful Use, Florida, December 6-7, 2011

Holiday Inn Main Gate East
5711 West Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway
Kissimmee, Fl. 34746

This will be a Regional Conference with a difference. We will also be holding a few sessions with specific topics of national significance like CCHIT and Meaningful Use.

More Details for this conference and registration forms will be available soon.

Last week we held a user  group at UCP of East Central Florida. We had a great turnout of staff coming from multiple agency’s using Therap. The real benefit of the user group was having agency’s that are new to Therap talk with providers who have been using the system. This way they can learn what worked and what did not work during the implementation process. User groups are also a great forum for providers to discuss regulatory changes in the state and how to address them. Barry and I are going to be holding regular user group meeting throughout the state in the next couple of months.  Stay posted for the schedule, we hope to see you there.

When meeting with community based providers throughout the country I am often asked how do we get technology out into our staff’s hands.  Just today my colleague Stephan Flannigan point out to me that a major retailer is selling the iPhone 3 ‘s for 19.99 and HP is selling touch pads for 99.99. This is a affordable way to get good technology in the hands of your staff. We currently have an application that runs on the iPhone, that will date, time stamp and geolocate were the note was entered. This also is great tool for quality assurance, providing back up that the service was provided in said location. As phone, tablets, and net books become cheaper it will become more affordable to get this technology out into the community. Being able to have staff entering in data as it happens is crucial. I often ask providers how can you afford not to know whats happening out in the field. By the time paper documentation is brought in and reviewed it can be anywhere from one to two weeks old.  Having technology out in the field lets you address issues in real time and find solutions to problems as they happen.

As many of you know APD announced that it will be issuing Services  Authorizations  on a quarterly basis. With this recent change it will make it even more challenging to keep track of Services Authorizations and utilization. I think I may have found a solution to that problem, enter Therap’s Billing module.  Therap’s Service Authorization allows you to streamline the process of keeping track of units utilized throughout the quarter. You can easily run a utilization report to see what percentage of the authorization has been used, which helps you not leave money on the table, resulting in take backs. The system also has a neat warning system to let you know when you have certain percentage left on the authorization. But what do we do at the end of the quarter you may ask. Thats simple, just easily adjust the dates and rate if needed and get back to work. The Therap Service Authorization will help your billing team save time and money. If you have any questions on how it works or would like a demo just let Barry or me know.