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Greetings to all our Azalea Health Clients. We hope you have been enjoying your summer! We have been working hard to optimize our products so that they have a quicker response time as well as introduce new features that will make them more efficient and user friendly. We appreciate all of your feedback and requests as it is important to the growth and development of our software. Please feel free to contact myself, Ashley McGahee, at amcgahee@azaleahealth.com or 229-269-4660 should you need training or have any questions regarding the new features listed below.

The ability to verify a patient's insurance and view his/her benefit information in real time is now available in Practice Management™. Insurances are verified from with in the Patient Details screen.

Note : The insurance verification information is pulled from the GatewayEDI Clearinghouse website. Please contact us if you are interested in adding the Insurance Verification feature to your Practice Management™ software.

Type up to four Diagnosis Codes / CPT codes in the provided text boxes to quickly submit the entered codes all at once.

Note : The Diagnosis and CPT/Charge Codes search boxes are still available for entering Diagnosis and CPT codes that you may not know the numeric code and need to search for by name.

For those encounters that have patient payments posted to more than one line item, you now have the ability to print only one receipt listing the individual payments and the total amount paid.

Note : If necessary, you still have the ability to print separate receipts for each individual line item as well.

Clients can now input their own Custom Charges. To add a custom charge, you will need to click on "Custom Charges " under "Settings" located in the top menu bar. The Add Custom charge box will appear. Assign the charge with a code and name, then submit.

Note : Once the Custom Charge is created, you will then need to add it to the Physician's Fee Schedule. The price entered in the fee schedule will be the amount listed for the custom charge in the encounter.
Example Charges : Returned Check Fee, No Show Charge, Medical Records Fee, etc.

For those practices that schedule patients to more than one physician, we have added the display feature so you now have the choice of viewing only one physician's schedule or all the physician's schedules at one time.

You will now see an asterisk symbol ( * ) next to all patients names who's appointment status is set to "Arrived" in the Scheduler.

Note : This feature is used as a way to quickly and easily determine which patients have and have not yet arrived for their appointments.

Easily keep count of how many patients have been scheduled to a single physician on a specific date. The number will increase or decrease as patients are either added or removed from the physician's schedule.

Note : This feature is utilized for those physicians that advise their staff to only schedule a certain number of patients on a single day.

This report shows Charges, Payments, and Adjustments for any CPT code(s) billed for during a specified date range.

Located in the patient details screen, you may now scan up to 20 pages at a time and save it as a single PDF document to a patient's profile.

Note : You may either view it in your web browser or download the document.

Notes that are written in the Popup Comments box will appear whenever a patient record is accessed, i.e. the patient definition and patient details screens, the encounter definition and encounter details screens, as well as when scheduling/accessing a patient from with in the Scheduler.

Note : Pop-up Comments are created in the Patient Definition (aka "Add/Edit Patient") screen.

You now have the ability to take photos of your patients and save it in their patient profiles by clicking on the [Take Photo] icon located in the patient definition screen.

Note : A Web Camera will need to be installed to your computer in order to utilize this feature.