Kareo now has support for institutional billing using the UB-04 claim format, the standard, uniform bill (UB) for institutional healthcare providers that was developed by the American Hospital Association. The UB-04 claim format is used to bill government and commercial insurance companies for non-professional charges, such as hospital, ambulatory survery center, home health, nursing facility, and other services. Prior to the general release of UB-04 billing in a few weeks, Kareo is now recruiting customers to participate in a private testing program featuring additional training and support and an opportunity to provide feedback to our product team. If you are interested in joining our beta test program, please email us at support@kareo.com.

• Patient Change of Address Reports
• Full Support for Anesthesia Billing
• Fix for Assigning Tasks to Users

Kareo has enhanced its patient statement printing and mailing services to include support for the United States Postal Service's (USPS) National Change of Address (NCOA) service. Kareo now runs all patient addresses through the USPS NCOA database and returns a new Patient Change of Address report that shows patients with updated addresses. Kareo also makes it easy for you to update multiple patient demographics records with updated addresses with one-click. Check for the new reports delivered to your account under Encounters > Clearinghouse Reports > Patient Statements.

Kareo now offers full support for anesthesia billing. You can now enter Encounters that include anesthesia charges using start and end times. Kareo automatically calculates the minutes and units using anesthesia settings on your fee schedules and contracts, and determines the correct amount to bill insurance companies and patients. Kareo has also updated its CMS 1500 form printing and electronic claim formats to fully support anesthesia billing. If you have any questions, please email us at support@kareo.com.

Prior to this release, the list of all users in your entire company would be displayed when assigning tasks to people in a specific practice. For certain customers, such as billing companies, this was a problem. Kareo has now fixed this problem so that you only see the list of users in a specific practice when assigning tasks in that practice.

At Kareo, customer feedback drives our service and ensures we build the features that matter most to people like you, so your input is critical to us. Please email your ideas for our next release to features@kareo.com.

Kind regards,

Kareo Support Team
support@kareo.com