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Directions
2006 User Group Conference
The ULTRACare
Users' Group Conference is just a few weeks away - September 26-28,
2006 - at the Portsmouth Renaissance Waterfront Hotel and Conference
Center. If you haven't registered yet, there is still room for you.
For easy on-line registration, please visit www.monette.com/directionsconf.htm.
If you need a printed version of the Conference Information including
the registration form, please
click here. If you need a printed version of the Select Your
Sessions information, please
click here.
The conference schedule will officially begin with an opening reception
and vendor showcase on Tuesday evening, September 26th at 5:00 p.m.
and will conclude Thursday, September 28th at 5:00 p.m.
By attending this conference, you will personally and professionally
benefit in several ways:
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Advance
your knowledge and become a power-user by attending any of the
39 educational sessions available covering the many facets of
Long- term care from clinical applications, billing, marketing,
and system security. We will focus on our flagship product for
the senior living industry - ULTRACare. Workshops will demonstrate
how to be more aware of what the software can do for you.
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Explore
the products and services with LTC suppliers from across the
country at the Vendor Showcase.
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Learn
all about this year's new updates and the upcoming product plans
for ULTRACare.
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Participate in valuable networking opportunities and social
events, where you can meet people, "talk shop", see
valuable solutions first hand, and create new business alliances.
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A
New Opening Night Reception to meet and greet all of our staff,
your peers and our Vendor Showcase partners from across the
country.
You
can read all about the conference events in the information guide.
The Select Your Sessions registration form lets you choose from
39 different workshops.
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ULTRACare
Electronic Charting:
A Peek into a Directions Workshop
One
of the most popular sessions at the Directions conference will be
a complete review of the new eMAR and eTAR Electronic Charting features,
scheduled for Wednesday, September 27th at 1:00 pm. This 2-part
presentation will include a full explanation of how to get started
using ULTRACare's newer features which include many user definable
codes that allow you to use more electronic medical records. Electronic
signatures can also be enabled for the MDS and orders to require
an additional level of authentication using a PIN.
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National
Provider ID number in ULTRACare?
Yes, ULTRACare
has a place for the NPI. Your facility's number should be entered
in the Admissions module under the Setup menu option. From there,
choose System Setup, and look for the NPI field…that's where
it belongs.
There
is also one more field for the facility NPI number in the Clinical
Application module under the Clinical, Assess, Utilities selection
in the "Edit Electronic Header Record Control Data" option.
Look for the NPI field and enter the facility's number there.
For
the doctor's NPI, enter those on the doctor code setup screen in
the NPI field. This is found in Admissions, Setup, System Codes
A-I, Doctor Codes.
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Reminder: Medicare Payment Hold in September
CMS
announced that a brief payment hold will be placed on Medicare payments
for claims during the last 9 days of the Federal fiscal year (September
22-30, 2006), as mandated by the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005.
All claims held during this time period will be paid on October
2, 2006. This policy will apply to claims subject to payment, and
does not apply to full denials, no-pay claims, and other non-claim
payments. During this delay, no advance payments will be allowed,
no interest will be accrued and no late penalties will be paid due
to this one-time payment hold.
Please refer to the MedLearn Matters article on the CMS website
at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MLNMattersArticles/downloads/MM5047.pdf
for
complete information.
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