WelcomeRegistration Staff In-service

Information

UAMS considered a

black hole

Centralization of Referring Physician Information

Synchronized

Centralized

Accurate

Accessible

3,657 updates made to PROU in 2009

Referring/Primary Care Physicians

Medipac/Registration Workstation Requirements

PCP ID Field

Medicaid/Insurance Providers will not pay

if missing or incorrect

Why is it important?

Referring ID Field

Needed for proper patient

follow-up treatment

Why is it important?

ChartScript Transcription System/Logician Fax Tool

Required for patient notes

to fax to Referring and PCP

Capturing the PCP/Referring Physician

Ask the following:

Who is your family doctor (PCP) - the one you see when you have a cold or the flu?

Is there a physician who sent you to our hospital that needs to receive follow-up information?

Adding the PCP physician

If there is no referral on file when adding a PCP physician on Medicaid patients, you must make a note in the CPI comments field for the billing office.

Professional Selection screen includes City and State

Fields in Medipac for Additional Referring Physicians

Professional Master List

Use #52334, as a temporary entry

Put a comment in the patient’s account with the physician’s name

Step 1:

What if a physician is missing?

Professional Master Update Form

Fill out the Professional

Master Update Form

http://physicianlink.uams.edu/Pr

ofMaster

Step 2:

Professional Master Update Form cont.

Physician Relations will update the patient record

If not updated within 24 business hours, email carla@uams.edu

Step 3:

Offers Referring

Physicians Access to

UAMS Medical Records

via the Internet

1,894 Referring Physicians

enrolled

1,142 Staff enrolled

68,656 Patients enrolled

Granting Physician Access Change the MDOK field to (Y)

The patient or their legal representative signs the Authorization form

Updated daily by system download

UAMS Physicians automatically have access; therefore a form is not required on UAMS physicians

Denial of Physician Access

Change the MDOK field to (N)

Patient completes: Denial section of the form

Field in Medipac for MD-Link

Field in Registration Workstation for MD-Link

Printing Authorization Form in Medipac

Printing Authorization Form in Registration Workstation with Auto-Print

Check the Print MD OK Form box when checking the Print Profile/Labels box

Two copies of the form will print

Printing Authorization Form in Registration Workstation Manually

Enter #1064 and the

number of copies (2)

Printing Authorization Form in Registration Workstation

MD-Link Patient Authorization Form

***Form must be on file for all patients***

Two forms print from Optio and are signed by patient

Scan form to the Authorization Folder

Patient receives other signed copy

Patient Authorization Form cont.

***Form must be on file for all

patients***

Yes or No flag will pull forward if form previously completed

Print form on patients: - Who have not completed a form - Who have a change in their physician

Please remember the PCP and the Referring Physicians

Our Success at UAMS depends upon your help!

Thank You