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Enable Alternative Service Location Fields - Registry Setting

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Note: This is a hidden registry setting.

This registry setting allows you to define a facility location other than the address associated with the program of service.

'Y' enables the following fields on the Edit Service Information and Edit Service Information (Charge Fee Access) forms:

  • Facility Location Name
  • Facility Location Code Qualifier
  • Facility Location Code Identifier
  • Facility Location Address - Street
  • Facility Location ZIP Code
  • Facility Location City
  • Facility Location State

The data from these fields will be reported in 837 outbound files for all guarantors with liability/charges for services, including for guarantors where liability was transferred.

To comply with CMS guidelines around telehealth services, when the Place of Service is 10 - Telehealth Provided in Patient's Home, the Service Facility Location is populated with the client's home address stored in SYSTEM.patient_current_demographics.

Note: 'Y' also enables the Print Bill form to sort HCFA-1500 services by facility location, if the location of service is something other than Office or Home, and an alternate address is entered for the service on the Edit Service Information form.

If the service being edited has come into the system via an 837 in Avatar MSO these fields will display the service facility location information from the 837 and will not be editable. When this registry setting is enabled and there is data in the fields, they will be used in place of the address associated with the program of service when defining the 'Service Facility Location' in the 837 Professional loops (2310C/242C) and the 837 Institutional loop 231E when creating an 837 in the Electronic Billing form.

'N' removes these fields from the forms.