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Hello - We are a Neprhology practice and we have patients in office setting, in the hospital as well as dialysis unit. We have all these patients in AC. When I run the MU reports, AC is picking up inpatients and dialysis patients as well.

AC Tech support says there is not a way currently seperate office patients with others in terms of running these reports. I am sure we are not the only ones in this situation.

Anyone figured out a way to do this. Anyway to change the criteria to run the reports. For example there are only a finite number of CPT codes that are used in office setting. So could the criteria be changed to calculate the denominator to include only the office based CPT codes.

Thanks in advance for any pointers that could help us.

Sekhar
Athens, GA

I believe if you do not assign cpt code to inpatients on superbilll the mu wizard will ignore that pt. Also if you feel they ahould be excluded you can choose to exclude them from reporting on demographics page.

I excluded all the dialysis patients from demographics. This significantly lowered my denominator for all criteria except for clinical summary. Any thoughts?

You may just have to print clinical summaries on each of these visits when you do them.

Try doing one day where you do not enter CPT codes on patients that are inpatients/dialysis and then run the report for that day only. See if that changes the numbers - I just run summaries for everyone -set printer to double sided and print away.

As a short term workaround, you might also be able to preview the print on your inpatient dialysis patients, then cancel it before printing. I think Amazing charts may still give you credit for the print.