1. Download new quarterly/annual codes

Steps to download the latest database of CPT, HCPCS or ICD codes - When the below steps are followed and completed, any new or revised codes will be downloaded on your local database, and any newly inactivated codes for the coming year will no longer be available on SMARText Online database.

Clinical Suite Only: New codes will be automatically added to the Billing Maintenance databases, and revised codes, when downloaded on the SMARText Online library, will be updated in the Billing Maintenance databases. Deleted codes will have to be inactivated manually.

 

Download new codes in the SMARText Items dialog

Download new codes in the SMARText Items dialog

1. Click on the SOAPware menu and select Chart.

2. When in the Chart domain, go to the Docutainers menu and select SMARText Items (or hit F10 on your keyboard).

Find the new code set on the SMARText Online Library

Find the new code set on the SMARText Online Library

1. Make sure that you have the Include Online Library Items box checked.

2. Enter the code needing to be downloaded into the Find box to access the new codes. NOTE: If there is a group of codes that start with the same few numbers or letters, you can enter those into the find box, and it will pull up all of the codes with that beginning set of numbers/letters. (For example, if you were wanting to pull up the grouping of office visit codes, you could enter 992 into the find box, and it will find all the office visits with those numbers. You can also type in a general description word, such as knee, xray, etc to search for groupings of codes.)

3. Click the Search button to search the entire online library for the new codes.

Download a new code set

Download a new code set

1. Once the list appears, click on the first line shown.

2. Press down the Shift key on your keyboard.

3. Using your mouse scroll all the way to the bottom of the list and click on the last item shown (while still having the Shift key held down).

4. You should see every line item selected in blue.

5. Let up on the Shift key and click the downward facing Blue Arrow to update, as indicated in the image above.

 

 

 

 

PM Code database updated (Clinical Suite Only)

PM Code database updated (Clinical Suite Only)

As soon as items are downloaded locally from the SMARText online library, the codes are brought over and made available in the Billing Maintenance Code databases. The updated and/or new codes will show a modified date as the date that the codes were downloaded and brought over.