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100

 Shortcut for populating the date into a Group Management field.

 What is “slash d” (/d)?

100

In Registrations, these are used to differentiate coverage (i.e., medical VS worker’s comp).

What are Insurance Sets?

100

The staff uses this to identify the type of appointment that can be scheduled.

What is an Encounter Code?

100

Group Management uses this feature to search a provider’s schedule and offer the next available appointment based on selection criteria.

What is Automatic Scheduling?

100

Designed to prevent loss of revenue to the practice by identifying posted charges that are not associated with a Charge Slip #.

What is the Appointment Reconciliation Report?

200

This date will cause Group Management to postpone the generation of a statement for a patient’s account.

What is the Statement Delay Date?

200

Group Management separates balance  responsibility into these four categories.

What are Personal, Insurance, Work Comp, and Collection Balances?

200

This is the template  that controls a provider’s appointment schedule.

What is a Master Day?

200

If we want the ability to block appointments for specific patients, we can leverage a flag in this module.

What is Account Collections?

200

This "listing" report will allow a practice to identify/count patients that meet specific criteria.

What is the Directory Report?

300

Generally based on the server date but can be changed by the end user.

What is the GPMS/Practice/Group Management Date?

300

Group Management functionality is controlled via these settings.

What are General Parameters?

300

Fields within Appointments that allow you to store information related to an appointment.

What is the Encounter

Data Set?

300

Functionality available to allow practices to post charges with time and concurrency components.

What is Anesthesiology?

300

Traditional, Revised, and Custom.

What are the different categories of reports available within Group Management?

400

This date identifies how long it has been since a charge was posted OR a payment/adjustment posted against that charge. 

What is Age-Based Date?

400

Customers can use these fields to define fees for a CPT that are specific to one Insurance Payor, Modifier, Provider, etc.

What are Alternate Fees?

400

Mechanism for defining alternate segments for the Provider’s schedule after it has been Ready’d and built.

What is a Day Type?

400

Allows a patient’s credit balance to automatically distribute to an outstanding debit balance.

What is the distcredits utility?

400

If we cannot find a report that meets our needs, we  can use this Group Management feature to print the information in the format wanted.

What are Custom Reports?

500

Calculated using the Months to Book Ahead value in Appointment Scheduling Constants and the Current System Date.

What is the Booking Appointments Thru Date?

500

We do not want the CPT to bill to insurance so we add this when posting the charge.

What is the “NC” Modifier?

500

This parameter is used to define the frequency in which a Provider wants patient appointments scheduled.

What is Provider Scheduling Time Interval?

500

Aside from the Statement Delay Date, this feature allows suppression of a patient’s statement.

What is a Statement Group?

                  OR

What is Collections Setup?

500

Run this in order to determine what user may have accessed a patient’s account.

What is the View Audit Log?