On Friday, our billing department created a bunch of new specialties based on MCR billing regulations. They changed the specialty in each mid level user record to reflect one of these new specialties. This morning I received a call that a user couldn't find the Mid Level Provider in the drop down of the practice. It seems that making this specialty change, changed each of the Mid levels user record. Home locations, securities, schedule resources were all changed. I have manually changed them all, but curios if anyone else has seen this?
The new specialty codes look like this: Physician Assistant NP (50) 363L00000X
It's been awhile since we have done this but I believe we created individual PA specialties. Example: Ortho physician assistant, General surgery physician assistant. That way we could tie them to the correct tax ID but then associate each PA with the correct specialty. In the CCC files add the specialty PA to the "User Edit Specialty Definitions". This way the drop downs and home locations remain the same.
Best of luck,
Thank you. I'll ask the billing department if this would be a feasible workaround.
Laurie