An
addition of Month-to-Date and Year-to-Date to date
information can be added to financial reports so
that a clearer picture of the overall financial
status of the practice is shown in a generally
acceptable format.
Lytec 2009 includes a new report which allows the
practice to easily print the total of a patient’s
payments received and posted by the practice on a
calendar year basis. The report should not need
explanation or deciphering by the practice to the
patient.
Past versions of Lytec allow for the
filtering/selecting of various data items in RANGES
of Codes or Individual Key Values. A single “range” would
contain the same Code in both the first (“From”) and
second (“To”) range filter fields. This data would
be for Codes in the database in consecutive order
BETWEEN the two ranges, inclusive. Any Codes
outside the consecutive ranges would not be returned
on the report. Lytec 2009 now has the capacity to
filter using non-consecutive ranges and individual values of
your choice.
The receptionist can now enter the charge and copay
by right clicking the patient appointment, select
Charges and Payments, enter the charge and payment
and the ability
to hand the receipt to the patient immediately
without leaving the appointment scheduler screen.
If
multiple patient records have been created for the same
patient, the Merge Patient Utility in Lytec 2009 can be
used to merge two patient records together along with all related records
within the system.
Lytec 2009 brings ease in a paper saving process for
identifying unapplied prepays by adding a checkbox
option for exclude zero balances.
When utilizing the checkbox to make tables
“inactive”, you can select whether you want to view
the inactive items or not. A new information pop up
box warns you when you save the bill of any and all
inactive values used in that bill.
Multi-provider clinics utilizing Lytec 2009 will
want to take advantage of the new ability to run the
Practice Analysis with subtotal information by
provider. Users will now find a check box to include
a Subtotal by Provider on their Practice Analysis
report and beneath that check box, there are radio
buttons to allow selection of Summary or Detail
subtotals.
A
new field, called Billing Status Code, is stored per
billing number and can be used as a filter to
include or exclude on all financial reports and when
printing claims and statements, or sending
electronic claims.
In
the Charges and Payments screen, there is a new
check box called “Show item payments”. Checking
this box makes payment details display directly
under their corresponding charge line item, and are
not able to be modified from here, but are visible
in Lytec 2009.
Additional security selection options allow or
restrict users from viewing, adding, deleting, and
modifying patient notes This will allow the Lytec
administrator to set security settings at the User
or User Type level and also adds entries in the
Audit Trail for each user that adds, deletes, or
modifies any patient notes.
Added the ability to gather and report more
financial information from Lytec 2009 reports,
specifically the ability to subtotal by Location and
Facility Codes.
Custom reports allow for creation of reporting and
lists which are more specific for the user than what
ships with Lytec 2009 out-of-the-box. The
enhancement of being able to use all custom data
fields with your Lytec 2009 custom reports will
enable the user to
create new or revised claim forms, patient
statements, patient communications, lists, and other
financial reports.
Appointment templates in Lytec can be very detailed
sometimes causing a single day of the appointment
schedule to require several templates. The new
Sharing Appointment Templates feature allows the
user to create and/or edit a template for a single
resource and then allow other resources to use that
same template. The process of using templates now
becomes much more manageable and efficient.