Release notes

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Summary

Kaufman Hall is pleased to announce the 2019.3.5 release of Axiom Contract Management. Each product release provides new features, enhancements, and configuration options to meet your needs. Many of these features and enhancements are a direct result of your feedback and suggestions.

Summary of the upgrade process:

  1. Review product release notes – Review this document to familiarize yourself with the new features and functionality.

  2. Schedule an installation date – Contact support@kaufmanhall.com or your implementation consultant, and they will confirm an installation period with you.

  3. Complete manual updates – After installing the upgrade, if needed, review any manual setup steps needed to enable features for this version.

Axiom Support

As always, we appreciate your commitment to Kaufman Hall. If you have any questions about your upgrade, please contact us. For contact and additional support information, in the Axiom Contract Management Help, in the contents pane on the left under Additional resources, click Kaufman Hall Software Support.

Training

Kaufman Hall offers multiple training options for our clients. These courses are part of your maintenance agreement and are free of charge. We strongly urge you to take advantage of all training options, including:

  • Self-help videos

  • Recorded webinars

  • Virtual training courses

For a complete listing of our courses, please visit www.kaufmanhall.com.

Product upgrade notes

IMPORTANT: You must apply the Axiom Software 2019.3 upgrade before applying any 2019.3 Axiom product upgrades. Axiom Software upgrades are backwards compatible so you can upgrade different products at different times, but you must upgrade to the Axiom Software 2019.3 before the first product upgrade. Refer to the Axiom Software 2019.3 Release Notes and Axiom Healthcare Suite 2019.3 Release Notes for considerations before upgrading.

When upgrading to the 2019.3 version of Axiom Contract Management, keep in mind the following:

  • KHA delivered reports may be replaced. Any report that you saved under a different name or created new will remain untouched. Replaced reports are available in Document History, if needed.
  • Any KHA delivered report that was moved to a new location will automatically move back to its original location.
  • KHA product templates and calculation method libraries will be replaced.
  • Product task panes will be replaced.
  • Process definitions will not be replaced.
  • Driver files will be replaced.
  • Security roles and sub-systems will be reset to their configured settings. All user security exceptions you may have made will remain intact.
  • Specific items configured as part of your company or organization's implementation such as imports, exports, driver files, and process management files, will remain as is. Any required modifications to these areas are covered in the release notes, if required.

New features summary

See What's new.

2019.3 – Known issues resolved

The following table lists the resolutions for issues addressed in 2019.3, released on September 16, 2019:

Issue Description Description
PFB-07682 - PLM - Reporting error related to Billid [TFS 36641]

Summary: The user cannot export report results to Excel because the BillID field is a display field.

Resolution: Corrected by removing the BillID as a display field.
PFB-07787 - CM Group and Price Error Message There was an error processing the request [TFS 37763]

Summary: ​When using the Group and Price menu selection, selecting a payer and a contract provision for the current quarter results in the following error message: "The current selections generated an empty result set. The recalculation task will be aborted." This message should display only when grouping and pricing or recalculating on parameters that return zero claims to process.

Resolution: Corrected by updating the WebMethods associated with Grouping/Pricing and Recalculating to return string values rather than throwing errors, and by updating the associated typescript files.
PFB-07892 - Special Characters in View Claim Window
[TFS 37994]

Summary: On the Contract Management View a claim page, when a user includes an underscore in the search box, they receive an error message stating, "Please enter valid search criteria. Only letters, numbers, dashes, commas, and spaces are valid." The claim does come up when the user searches by name, so the system does accept underscores but you cannot use them in search fields.

Resolution: Corrected by changing the code to allow using underscore characters in the account number search field.

2019.3.5 – Known issues resolved

The following table lists the resolutions for issues addressed in Axiom Software patch 2019.3.5, released on November 1, 2019:

Issue Description Description
PFB-07443 - Factors Form - Uncompensated Care and Sole Community Fields [40208]

Summary: When a new provision is created by converting an existing provision, the Uncompensated Care and Sole Community fields in the Factors form are not being copied from the source provision to the new provision’s Factors form.​

Resolution: Corrected by adding the missing fields to the copy function’s stored procedure.
PFB-08122 - CM - Outlier Exclusions in factors do not copy/import to a new provision [40209]

Summary: When a new provision for a Medicare contract is created by converting or importing an existing provision, any data in the Outlier Exclusions field of the Factors form is not being copied from the source provision to the new provision.

Resolution: Corrected by adding the missing field to the copy function’s stored procedure.
Exporting Version with SoleCommunityAddon and HospitalAcquireConditionAdjustment gives error message
[40268]

Summary: When exporting a contract version that uses CMS DRG Factors and has data in the Uncompensated Care and Hospital Acquired Condition Adjustment fields, the user receives an error message stating that the file does not conform to the system definition for Contracts.

Resolution: Corrected by adding the missing fields to the export function.
Import Version with SoleCommunityAddon, Uncompensated Care, Hospital Acquired Condition Adjustment and Outlier Exclusions are blank [40365]

Summary: When importing a contract version that uses CMS DRG Factors and has data in the Sole Community Addon and the Hospital Acquired Condition Adjustment fields, once the version has been imported, these fields, and the Outlier Exclusions field are blank.

Resolution: Corrected by updating the schema and stored procedures to handle the fields that had missing data.

Manual setup instructions

There are no manual setup or configuration steps required for this release.

Known issues

The following table lists the known issues for this release:

Issue Description Description
PFB-07236 - Payer Code Missing [TFS 32739] Symptom: The front screen view for the 835 from a claim contains a detail description of the payer. However, when the user opens the 835, they do not see the same Payer description that is displayed on the previous screen.

Workaround: Go back to the 835 summary listing report to view the payer description.
PFB-07168 - C - Line Item Code + Rev Code calc basis attach rates routines [TFS 36146]

Symptom: When the user adds a Line Item Code Plus Revenue Code Clause to a contract, if the attached rate file has a rate greater than $214,000, they receive an error when trying to attach the file. (Error: On Insert Rates: - SqlDBType.SmallMoney overflow.)

Explanation: Attaching the rate file creates an error.

Workaround: Manually enter the rates.

IMPORTANT: Refer to the Axiom for Healthcare Suite 2019.3 Release Notes for additional known issues that have a suite-wide impact.