Author: NikoHealth

Wishing you a season filled with joy, laughter and cherished moments and may the new year ahead be filled with hope and prosperity.

Happy Holidays from your friends at NikoHealth.

Lets look at what we achieved together in 2023 in the latest release.  Disruptive – the word that sums up 2023 and NikoHealth has been leading the charge in innovation.

Let’s take a look at the latest features made available that you don’t want to miss.

Whats New

Billing Provider Updates 

• Ability to add a Pay-To Provider Address Learn More

Workflow Enhancements for Tasks

• With the newly updated task functionality you can now add or edit an open task from the Orders page without having to navigate into the order details. Simply click on the drop down arrow available in the Tasks column of the orders page. Learn More
• When navigating to the Tasks within a patient record, order, or invoice the task status will default to open tasks.

Patient Creation Update

• When creating a new patient, an information popup has been added to notify the user if the system has identified a possible duplicate patient record. This will allow the user to determine if a new patient in fact needs to be created or whether the record may already exist.

Documents Improvements

• Attaching a document to an order has been improved to allow you to search for all available documents that are uploaded to a patient record along with the ability to add multiple files at once. Learn More
• Within the Documents page of a patient record, the design of the preview and edit action buttons on each available document have been updated. The functionality to download a document has been added to simplify the user interaction.

Inbox Improvements

• A new advanced filter search has been added to the inbox when attaching incoming files via fax. This will allow for a user to search by a Date of Birth, or Patient ID.

New Fields added to the following reports:

Patient Detail 

• Created By
• Patient Creation Date

Invoice Detail 

• Claim control #

Payment by Channel 

• Reference #
• Payment Note
• Legacy

New Available Reports

• Referring Providers ( Please note that the existing referring provider report will be sunset in Q1 2024)
• Invoice Notes

API Updates 

• Order Quik Ship APIs are now available. These APIs allow for the ability to ship or dropship an order from a Client App. Learn More
• The GET/v1/invoices{id} API now returns FirstSubmittedOn and LastSubmittedOn information.
• “AllowDuplicate” functionality has been added to the  POST/v1/patients API to allow a Client App to create a duplicate patient record if needed.
• The Order note create endpoint v1/orders{orderid}/notes has been updated to return a corrected description in Swagger.

Advanced Filters on the Invoice Page 

• The ability to search Invoice Tags with And/or filters is now available on the Invoice page.

 

 

Warmest wishes this Thanksgiving from all of us at NikoHealth. We’re grateful for all of our wonderful  customers that make up our  community.

                                                         Your friends at NikoHealth

If you’re curious about what’s new in NikoHealth – and what’s changed – you’re in the right place.

What’s New in recent releases.

• Create custom claim adjustment rules to automate the processing and posting of payer remittances. Learn More
• Auto apply prior authorizations to already created invoices on hold. Learn More
• Share documents via fax or email. Learn More
• Create price groups for payers and price options. Learn More
• Configure price options to auto-calculate Medicare allowable rates. Learn More
• Create a list of accounts using Chart of Accounts. Learn More
• Addition of Created Date and Created By fields to the Prior Authorization Report.
• Filters and Fields in reports are now alphabetically sorted.
• Month End Close Reports now include invoice created date,  transaction type of rental or purchase, service location NPI and voided invoice transactions.
• Shipment tracking support for LaserShip carrier.

 

 

Here’s a round up of the latest features you don’t want to miss- You asked, and we’ve delivered- we’ve released some highly requested updates.

What’s New including Tweaks & Updates

• Create Teams  and task out to Teams and Teammates.
• Create custom Document Types.
• Inbox Fax Management. Learn More
• New Claim Rejections Report.
• New Order Items Purchase Order Creation.
• Addition of a submission type field on the claim submission report. indicating an initial submission or resubmission of a claim.
• A new notification tab that displays on an invoice.
• Price option id now available on the invoice detail report.
• Additional plan information is now displayed when returned by a payer in the detailed benefit section of the insurance benefit screen.
• Tags that have been deleted when searching will display  (Tag – Archived).
• Ability to search by HCPCS has been added to the patient items screen.
• When copying an invoice the original invoice id is displayed under the custom field tab of the newly created invoice. This original invoice id is also reportable on the invoice detail report.
• New changelog audit trail available on the audit tab of an order and invoice by clicking on the infographic.
• The order id on the order queue is now a hyperlink.
• The invoice id and the order id on the invoice queue is now a hyperlink.
• Custom fields have been added to inventory location under management.
• Custom fields have been added to vendors under management.
• Denial code filter added to the denial report.
• The policy section of the insurance benefits screen displays all available payer contact info.
• Service line notes from invoices is now reportable on the invoice detail report.
• Additional info notes from invoices is now reportable on the invoice detail report.
• A closed date of an invoice is now reportable on the invoice detail report.
• If a patient has a facility assigned, the facility information is displayed in the left side bar summary across the patient profile as well as when creating an order.
• Item notes are now reportable on the purchase order report.
• Redesigned support and help center access available from the user profile icon.
• Ability to indicate a unit of measure (UOM) when creating par level rules for automated purchase order creation.
• Fixed a sorting issue under patient items.
• Added Order Id column next to the Invoice Id available on the patient/financials/invoices.
• Added Payment column next to the charge available on the patient/financials/invoices.
• Added Order Id column next to the Invoice Id available on the billing queue/invoices.
• Ability to indicate a preferred purchase vendor on a catalog item.
• Ability to indicate a vendor specific purchase unit (UOM) and purchase price on a catalog item.
• Payments, Adjustments, Balance, Invoice Status and Original Invoice Id are now reportable fields on the sales tax report.
• Claim remittance code 142 – Monthly Medicaid Patient Liability Amount when posted against an invoice is now treated as a patient responsibility.
• The invoice id on the denials queue is now a hyperlink.
• Task notifications for user and team tasks.
• Ability to search order tags by And / Or available in the advanced filter of the order queue.

Shipping Label Creation

If you are shipping products internally you don’t want to miss out on this feature. You can now create shipping labels directly in NikoHealth through our integration with goshippo.com. Take advantage of the best rates from the top carriers and streamline your order fulfilment process. To learn more about how to use this feature please contact integration@nikohealth.com.

New APIs

• Custom fields APIs
• Vendor APIs
• Product Management APIs
• Order Cost Sharing API

To learn more about how to connect, simplify and automate your workflow with an API integration please contact integration@nikohealth.com.

CMS Discontinued the Use of Certificates of Medical Necessity and Durable Medical Equipment Information Forms  Read More

For claims submitted with a date of service of 01/01/2023 CMNs will no longer be transmitted.

 

 

 

 

Wishing all a joyous and happy holiday season from your friends at NikoHealth. 

This Thanksgiving we would like to thank all of our valued and supportive customers. Wishing all a very Happy Thanksgiving.

Your friends at NikoHealth.

Spring is here and so is our latest release. See what’s new in NikoHealth. 

Fixed Asset Depreciation

Manage depreciation for your fixed assets with automated depreciation calculations and fixed asset reporting. Learn More

New Reports Available 

• Denials Detail
• Authorizations
• Fee Schedules
• Resupply Programs

Additional Improvements and Tweaks 

• Branch location filter added to service maintenance report
• POS added as a filter to patient orders page
• Allowable  field/filter added to the payer adjustment report
• Ability to print a receipt when creating a refund
• Added reference # column, created by and modified filters to refund workflow
• Ability to edit the referring provider on locked invoices
• Downloadable reports for month end closing
• Cost sharing hint on orders
• Supplemental information fields now available on the invoice  for electronic claim transmission
• Payments created and  ERA’s received now display the billing provider in addition to being able to filter the payments tab and payments detail report by billing provider
• Invoice ID field added to search when connecting payments
• Receipt for POS transactions is now saved to the order documents tab

 

Looking ahead to 2022 with a renewed sense of hope and new beginnings, we wish you and your loved ones joy, health and prosperity. Thank you for your partnership.

Cheers to 2022! 

Your friends at NikoHealth. 

We hope everyone has a relaxing and very enjoyable holiday. Thank you to the efforts and hard work every day of every person, including you on this Labor Day.

We want to make you aware that this Sunday, April 25th at 1:00 AM Est there will be scheduled down time for up to 5 hours.

We will be using this time to do system maintenance to our infrastructure in order to continuously improve system performance.

To ensure uptime and stability of the platform, we are performing this upgrade to our infrastructure at this time.

During this maintenance window, NikoHealth will be inaccessible.