What's new

Welcome to Axiom Enterprise Decision Support 2023.1!

Enterprise Decision Support delivers the following new and updated features and enhancements:

Relative Cost Unit (RCU) cost method added

The RCU cost method leverages the results of all previously-run cost method results as the basis for calculating one or multiple cost categories.

Ability to run the Relative Cost Unit (RCU) process from the Process cost advanced screen for processing in correct order

To run the RCU process from the Process cost advanced page, a new RCU checkbox was added under the Process cost column so that it can be processed in the correct order.

Add Relative Cost Unit (RCU)-related database tables for creating stories and processing RCU definitions under EDS/Cost Model/RCU folder

To find all RCU-related data, a new RCU folder was added for RCU processing under EDS/Cost Model.

To add RCU-specific tables in this folder, you can store RCU configurations and process RCU definitions when calculating RCU costing.

System processes Relative Cost Unit (RCU) if RCU version is configured in the cost model, and you select RCU for processing - Total Cost Processing

EDS processes the RCU% Allocation calculation after RCU Cost has been processed so that you can obtain the percentage of allocation.

This enhancement only includes processing of RCU type Total and does not include processing of RCU types, Fixed and Variable.

System processes Relative Cost Unit (RCU) if RCU version is configured in the Cost Model, and you select RCU for processing - Fixed and Variable Processing

EDS processes the RCU% Allocation calculation after RCU Cost has been processed so that you can obtain the percentage of allocation.

This enhancement only includes processing of RCU type Total, and does not include processing of RCU type, Total Cost.

Microcosting enhanced

Microcosting provides the flexibility to load different acquisition costs by service month. This change was made possible by adding the ServiceYM to the MicroCostItem table.

NOTE: For clients moving from prior EDS versions (2021.x – 2022.3) to 2023.1 who already have used microcosting:
  • You must repopulate the MicroCostitem table, making sure each department/costitem/costcategory is represented for the appropriate service year and month (ServiceYM in table, format yyyymm) for your cost model:
    • You can choose to just replicate the values that you had in your historical MicrocostItemTable (now stored as MicroCostItemLegacy, for reference) for all Service YMs, or you may want to introduce new acquisition costs for some of those Service YMs.
    • You must manually make these changes either by cutting/pasting directly into the MicroCostItem table in the Windows client, or by modifying and rerunning your custom microcost import.

Select Microcost as an option within a cost model so that version is no longer used in the process

Created new MicroCostItem table with Service Year Month column replacing Microcost table

  • You can add the effective year and month that the microcost transaction occurred, which lets you allocate the microcost entries by month.

  • The Version column was removed from the Microcost item table.

Archived the MicroCostItem table contents MicrocostItemLegacy table

The table is located in Table library > EDS > CostModel > Microcost > MicroCostItem:

As part of removing the Version option in the Microcost feature, the table was renamed so that the historical (legacy) data is retained and available for you to review.

Provider Relative Value Units (pRVU) cost method added

The Provider RVU (pRVU) method allows costing calculations to look across departments to consider a provider’s entire activity. It requires provider-specific general ledger departments and other considerations to implement.

Currently, this method should only be used by clients who have used pRVU in Cost Accounting/Decision Support Services (CA/DSS) and are going through their migration to Enterprise Decision Support (EDS). Additional front-end enhancements and documentation will be provided in 2023 to provide more guidance to clients looking to implement pRVU for the first time in EDS. If you are interested in implementing pRVU, contact your Customer Relationship Executive (CRE) for more information.

Added and updated Provider Relative Value Units (pRVU) version within a selected cost model so that you can allocate the appropriate pRVU updates

  • On Cost Model page, added a new RVU (optional) label.

  • Added a dropdown that defaults to Optional as the value. The behavior is identical to the RVU dropdown on the same page.
  • The dropdown is available only when you select Use provider RVU.
  • Enabled you to create a new version from Cost Model page.

Run the Provider RVU process from the Process cost advanced page for processing in the correct order

  • Added new Item Type column to the Cost RVU table that you must populate to properly process pRVU.

  • Added new Provider RVU check box in the Process cost advanced > Process cost column.

Other enhancements

Added additional columns and sorting functions in the Cost Cat selection page providing complete information for making proper selections

  • Added the Report Detail column, which is populated from the CostCat table.
  • Added the Report Group column, which is populated from the CostCat table.

  • The default Cost Categories column is listed in alphabetical order.

  • Added the ability to sort on the Report Detail and Report Group column headers on the RCU Definitions - Cost Categories page.

Added new columns to the cm$ CostResults table structure for Fixed Cost, Variable Cost, and Volume

Added three columns to the cm$ model that is specific to Cost Results tables to enable Relative Cost Unit (RCU) to run more efficiently and improve data presentation for more useful reporting and review.

  • Fixed Cost (Total calculated fixed costs) is the same data type as Calculated Cost.

  • Variable Cost (Total calculated variable costs) is the same data type as Calculated Cost.

  • Volume is the same data type as CostDetail.

Added the following cost totals columns to the reporting tables for convenience and consistency

Tables

  • EncounterTotalCostsReporting

  • CostDetailCategoryCalculationReporting

Columns

  • TotalDirectCost

  • TotalIndirectCost

  • TotalFixedDirectCost

  • TotalVariableDirectCost

  • TotalFixedIndirectCost

  • TotalVariableIndirectCost