Account

Select the name of the account who is financially responsible for the visit.  The default account will be initially selected.

Class

Account Class of the Account who is financially responsible for the Visit

File Insurance

Indicates how (or if) claims should be filed for the Visit

Coverage Type

Select the Coverage Type required for this visit.  This will help you select from multiple effective insurance coverages that have been entered in Demographics.

Hold Claim Days

The number of days that claims for the primary insurance plan are to be held is displayed.  This value may be overridden.

Patient Name

Patient's Name

Patient Age

Patient's age as of the Visit Date

Policy 1

Displays the insurance carrier name for policy level 1

Policy 2

Displays the insurance carrier name for policy level 2

Policy 3

Displays the insurance carrier name for policy level 3

Balance

Displays Balance of the account

Bal Age

Displays age of the oldest open Visit on the account

Division

Enter/Select the Division for which the Visit is being entered.

The Division is how Visits are tied to Divisions and their Tax IDs

Visit Type

Displays the Visit Type.  The Visit Wizard is only used for Anesthesia.

Visit Date

Enter/Select the Visit Date (Service Date).

Anesthesiologist

Enter/Select the first Anesthesiologist on the visit

Anesthetist

Enter/Select the first Anesthetist on the visit

Surgeon

Enter/Select the Surgeon on the visit

PCP

Enter/Select the Primary Care Provider

Facility

Enter/Select the Facility in which the procedure was performed

Location

Enter/Select the Location (Place of Service) in which the procedure was performed

OR Suite

Enter/Select the O/R Suite in which the procedure was performed

Anes Type

Enter/Select the anesthesia type which was used for the procedure

Physical Status

Enter/Select the physical status of the patient.

99140-Emergency Conditions

Select this check box if Emergency Conditions are present

Procedure

Enter/Select the primary surgical procedure

ASA

If the primary surgical procedure crosswalks to more than one ASA procedure code, select the appropriate ASA code from the list.  Selection of an ASA procedure code will set the base units value.

Modifiers

Enter/Select up to four modifiers.  Some modifiers are automatically handled by MedSuite.  Setting the Medical Direction may set one of the modifiers to a medical direction modifier used by the plan.  In addition, anesthesia types may be setup such that modifiers are set for certain anesthesia types (monitored anesthesia care) practice-wide or for a specific plan.

Base Units

Base units will be retrieved from the ASA Procedures table for the ASA code selected.  Several methods exist which can be used to override the base units:

Modify

If base units are overridden manually, check the Base Unit Modify checkbox. This will prevent the anesthesia charge calculation from performing its normal base unit processing.  In effect, you are telling the calculation to use the base units entered. If base units are manually overridden, changes that are applied to the MD will also be applied to the CRNA where appropriate.

Case Times

Enter the beginning and ending case times (military time).  Case times may be required input fields.

HH:MM

Displays the time entered in the Case Times fields in hours and minutes

Minutes

Displays the time entered in the Case Times fields in minutes

Medical Direction

Enter/Select the Medical Direction that will be used to calculate the fee.  Medical directions are tied to the anesthesia conversion factor (rate per unit).  Medical direction defaults to 'S-System Calculated'.  You should not normally need to change this.  However, you may force the calculation to use a different medical direction and conversion factor.

(Diagnosis)

Enter/Select the diagnoses

(Description)

The diagnosis description is displayed

Related

Indicate if the diagnosis is related to the surgical procedure.