

1. Charges and Payment Entry from the Scheduler - From the Edit Appointment screen, you will have a menu option that will take you directly to the billing screen. It will carry over the patient from the appointment screen to the billing screen. This means you no longer have to duplicate your efforts.
2. Patient Notes Security Addition - Access to patient notes can now be restricted through user security, and changes to patient notes are now included in the audit trail.
3. Inactive Data Handling - You will now receive a warning if you try to use a diagnosis/transaction code that has been marked as inactive.
4. Patient Merge - Have you ever had a situation where you had the same patient in your database two times, but couldn't delete either one because information had been entered on both patients? Now you can merge those two accounts!
5. Appointment Template Enhancement - In previous versions, you had to create templates for each individual provider. Now you can create one template and assign it to multiple providers.
6. Billing Status Code - This is similar to the Patient Code. This will be assigned on the patient screen and can be used as a filter in most reports.
7. Payment Detail on Charges and Payment Window - You will now be able to view all payments on a bill with one click of your mouse. The detail will display directly under its corresponding charge line.
8. Patient Statement Enhancement - Lytec 2009 introduces a new charge-based patient statement format called Charge Details Only. The new format displays data as one line per charge and lists insurance payments, guarantor payments, and adjustment amounts for items applied to each charge, as well as the balance for each charge.
9. YTD and Year End Patient Detail Report - Lytec 2009 introduces the Patient Payment Annual Detail report for a quick and simple method for printing out statements for patients for tax purposes. These statements only include patient payments.
10. Multi Select Filtering - This powerful new method of filtering data allows you to build precise search parameters by letting you choose the exact codes that you want to include in your search. To utilize this feature, you will hold your <CONTROL> or <SHIFT> key down and select multiple codes.
11. Location and Facility Subtotal Report - You now have the ability to subtotal by location and facility on the following reports: Procedure Code Analysis Summary, Insurance Charge Analysis, Insurance Payment Analysis, Insurance Transaction Code Analysis, Insurance Reimbursement Analysis, Credit Balance Aging, Patient Aging, Insurance Aging and Service Aging.
12. Practice Analysis Subtotal by Provider Report Addition - When you choose this option, a practice analysis report will include a new section subtotal that breaks out charges, payments and adjustments by provider at the end of the report.
13. Month-to-Date and Year-to-Date Report - These reporting options will be available for the Day Sheet, Transaction Journal, and Practice Analysis.