Jan / Feb Fees and other updates available

Post Date: January 26, 2022

The mad dash to complete the 31Jan tax reporting is almost behind us, and IRS is indicating that they are good with the hard work we have done to prepare those returns.  If you have filed with us, please let us know by COB tomorrow (27Jan) if you anticipate having any corrections for the data that you have already provided for us to file in your behalf, since we anticipate sending those to IRS on 28Jan.

It is now time to consider your timing for installing the updates that went into effect on 1Jan and 1Feb2022.

Since several of you may have delayed installing one or more of the recent updates, and this update is significantly more complex than usual because of that, we recommend that Alton brings your systems up-to-date to avoid having future problems.

Jan / Feb 2022 update Release Notes:

• Both Compensate SI and Compensate SF database needs to be backed up prior to installing updates.  

o All users need to be logged out from Compensate Si and SF prior to backup.

o Please schedule Alton to update your system for a time after the backup completes.  We anticipate it may take up to two hours to validate your “starting point” and update both Compensate SI and Compensate SF to current level.

New Compensate SI version 6.6.6 installation:

• Verify / install

• 2021 updates

• SQL updates to support 1Jan2022 Professional Provider/Always Therapy fees.

• SQL updates to support 1Oct2021 VocRehab fees.

• SQL updates to support 1Feb2022 Hospital Inpatient Fees

• SQL inserts missing cpt descriptions from VocRehab and DHS documents. 

• New Executable 

• Updated hard-coded Anesthesia rates for years 2017-2022 and included VocRehab mod codes W2, W3 to use those fees, when applicable.

• Removed 2021 1099 images from executable (no impact to use if those images were installed into the reports directory per instructions)

• Post-Req:

• Rename current Compensate SI executable to comp_6_6_5.exe and copy over new Compensate SI 6.6.6 executable and rename it to comp60si.exe (or whatever the Compensate SI shortcut leads to)

New Compensate SF version 6.5.8 installation:

• Verify / install 

• 2021 Updates

• 1Jan2022 PE Update

• "Deployment for DEMOC and ACES imports deployment package" which added 11 columns between 2 database tables, updated a stored procedure, and re-wrote some views to support PIRS file definition changes for ACES and DEMOC file imports.  

• SQL updates to support 1Jan2022 Professional Provider/Always Therapy fees.

• SQL updates to support 1Oct2021 VocRehab fees.

• SQL updates to support 2Feb2022 Hospital Inpatient Fees

• New executable:

• PE EM premium projection support.

• ACES and DEMOC import support.

• Hard coded Anesthesia fees updated to include years 2017-2022, and also included the use of VocRehab mod codes W2, W3, when applicable.

• This release removed the 2021 1099 images from the executable (reduced size, with no impact to 2021 1099 use).

• Disabled EDI->”CMS Claim Reports” and EDI->”CMS Query Files” menu choices

• Post-Req:

• Rename current Compensate SF executable to comp_6_5_6.exe and copy over new Compensate SF 6.5.8 executable and rename it to comp.exe (or whatever the Compensate SF shortcut leads to)