New Features and Updates
In this release are the following changes:
Agencies will now be able to send meeting reminders to Caregivers and Staff users, just like they have been able to send schedule reminders.
During set-up, the agency user can configure in office settings how many mins before the meeting start time the reminder should go out.
Agency can also opt for the meeting reminders to be sent via SMS (text messages) as well by going into the Admin > Configurations > Configure SMS services.
When a caregiver is created in QuickBooks via “Add to QuickBooks” feature in CareSmartz360 > QuickBooks Integration, the system will include the following parameters from Caregiver profile:
a. Gender
b. Date of Birth
c. Hire Date
d. Time Tracking ID will be pushed as Employee ID
e. SSN (Social Security Number).
This feature will be available for the both QuickBooks Online and the Desktop integrations.
From now on, if a user wants to work in CareSmartz360 while keeping left menu collapsed or expanded, system will remember the user settings. That means if a user wants to work while keeping the left menu collapsed and log out, then upon re-login, user will see the left menu collapsed till the time user expand the menu.
Earlier, under the “Personal Information” block of Caregiver Applicant Form setting, agencies had control over which fields were optional and mandatory, but now the system has the capabilities to disable the fields as well.
e.g. If an agency doesn’t want to capture/show the applicant “Gender” field , they can go into the admin section and disable this field, and the applicant form will not have this field for the caregiver applicant form.
Agencies can now capture the Client’s Emergency Preparedness rating data in the Client’s assessment.
The drop down values can be configured from the Admin Section > Clients > DDM Clients > “Emergency Preparedness Rating “.
There is also a new report added under Client Reports category: “Emergency Preparedness Rating” which will show the current Emergency Preparedness Rating for the client profile.
Please Note: This rating data will only be considered as finalized when the assessment gets completed.
If a client has multiple completed assessments, then the last completed assessment rating data will be considered as the current emergency preparedness rating for the specific client.
The following changes have been made to the ADP Export file for the finalized Payroll batch:
a. Batch ID Column “B” will only contain the batch number(numerical data) for the batch.
b. OT Hours column “E” is now labeled as O/T Hours.
c. OT Rate
Temp Rate Column “G” will contain the regular rate of the schedule in case overtime is applicable. ADP will automatically use the multiplier on the rate as per the configurations done.
d. Additional Mileage
If there is mileage calculated by the CareSmartz360 system (Office Settings > Payroll), then ADP Export will also include the Mileage Code “MIL” under column “J” and the total mileage considered will be under column “K” and the Mileage rate will be under column G labeled as Temp Rate.
Under Office Settings > Rates, Agencies can now configure different bill and pay rate for expense items.
Earlier, there was a single field called “Rate” which was used as default Bill and Pay Rate both but now, if agencies want to configure different Bill and Pay Rates for the expense, it can be done via this configuration.
Also, at the time of adding a new expense type in the admin section, the agency user can configure the default Bill and Pay Flag for the expense whether the expense is, by default, Billable or not OR Payable or not which will help agencies configure their expenses more accurately and there will be less manual work involved at the time of creating invoice and payroll.
This setting can be accessed via Admin > Scheduling > DDM Scheduling > Expense Code.
The “Clock-In/Clock-Out Location and Mode” report under EVV category is now updated with the Service Type column which will show the type of service client received.
Also, if the caregivers are doing Clock-In and Clock-Out from a Smartphone or from the Caregiver Web Portal, Clock-In/Clock-Out Latitude/Longitude will act as shortcut to the Google Maps where Agency can review the Caregiver’s Location at the time of Clock-In and Clock-Out.
On the Dashboard > Open Shifts widget > Action Column icon will now open up the schedule directly so that agency user can directly assign the shift to caregiver from Dashboard window.
Clients can now be configured with Yearly Authorization under Client Profile > Rates section.
CareSmartz360 system will offer both schedule level DMAS90 export file as well as the Weekly report.
This report will be grouped by Client and Caregiver and the Type of service performed for a given week (Personal or Respite Care).
That means if a Caregiver worked with a Client for both Personal and Respite Care services, then there will be two DMAS90 Weekly reports available, one for the Personal Care and another for Respite Care.
This report can be located from Left Menu > Scheduling > Under Time Tracking Category.
Agencies can now access the Receive Payment option right after creating/finalizing the invoice batch.
Clicking on the Receive Payment Icon will open up a pop-up where agency can directly receive the payment on the newly created invoice.
A report has been introduced in Reports>Scheduling which will help the agency to identify the Billing and Payroll status of the approved schedule(s) at any given point of time.
From Dashboard > Open Shifts > If the user click on the schedule times to find the suitable caregiver, system will open up the month view of the client’s calendar as per the schedule’s month of occurrence. Earlier the calendar was showing the current month by default.
We have also increased the number of caregiver calendars that can be compared in the Find Caregiver screen from 10 to 15.
We have introduced a new report called Caregiver Badge report under Reports>Caregiver which will generate the caregiver’s badge for the agency he/she is working with.
On one side will be the Caregiver’s profile picture (If uploaded) with the Agency Name and the Address and Phone Number. The other side of report will contain the primary telephony instructions for the caregiver.
If an agency is configured with single or multiple territories, then on the Client and Caregiver screens, a territory filter will be available for the agency so that the clients and caregivers can be filtered accordingly as per the selected filter.
Agencies can now review the total hours for the caregivers in given week from Schedule Calendar as well. This statistic is labeled as Completed and will show the sum of hours for the schedules having scheduled, approved, time tracking confirmed and needs review.
As different payers can ask for different procedure or revenue codes for the same service, the codes configuration is now moved to the payer profile > billing section. Earlier this setting was present in Admin > Scheduling > Service Type.
If one client has two insurance with different payers then the member id of the client can vary. Hence, Member ID field is now moved from Client Profile > Main section and shifted to Client Profile > Rates section and will be present while associating the client with the payer.
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