{"id":251,"date":"2019-05-30T20:25:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T20:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.2kmedicalsoftware.com\/Medisoft-Blog\/?p=251"},"modified":"2019-05-30T22:29:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T22:29:23","slug":"set-up-program-preferences-in-lytec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.2kmedicalbilling.net\/Lytec-Blog\/set-up-program-preferences-in-lytec\/","title":{"rendered":"How to setup Program Preferences in Lytec"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/339435528\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.2kmedicalbilling.net\/Lytec-Blog\/images\/image001-2.png?ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;On the main menu bar, click&nbsp;<strong>Admin<\/strong>, then&nbsp;<strong>Preferences<\/strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Do be aware, these preferences apply to the entire practice, we will look at User-specific preferences in a later section of this guide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;On the Preferences window, there are 10 tabs with different options affecting different areas of the program.&nbsp;&nbsp;Let\u2019s take a look at the first tab (<em>screenshot on next page<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3a. Automatic Write-Offs:&nbsp;&nbsp;The first option,&nbsp;<strong>Subtract<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;allowed amount from charge<\/strong>, tells the program, when you use the &#8216;Automatic Write-Off&#8217; feature, to take the Charge amount, minus the payment, and to then write off the remaining amount.&nbsp;&nbsp;The other option,&nbsp;<strong>Use<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;write-off in fee schedule<\/strong>, will use the amount specified in the fee schedule.&nbsp;&nbsp;We will look at Fee Schedules in a later section of this guide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3b. Enter Key:&nbsp;&nbsp;The&nbsp;<strong>Standard Windows<\/strong>&nbsp;option will cause the &#8216;Enter&#8217; key to behave the same clicking an &#8216;OK&#8217; button.&nbsp;&nbsp;The other option,&nbsp;<strong>Move<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;between fields<\/strong>, will cause the focus, or cursor, to move to the next data field when using the &#8216;Enter&#8217; key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.2kmedicalbilling.net\/Lytec-Blog\/images\/image002-2.png?ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>3c. Automatic Patient Chart Numbering:&nbsp;&nbsp;When entering a new patient, if the &#8216;Patient<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chart&#8217; field is left blank; the program will auto-generate a &#8216;Chart Number&#8217; based on&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;this setting.&nbsp;&nbsp;The&nbsp;<strong>Generate from name<\/strong>&nbsp;option will take the first six characters of the patients last name followed by a sequential four-digit number.&nbsp;&nbsp;The other option,&nbsp;<strong>Generate Numerically<\/strong>, will assign each new patient a numeric &#8216;Chart Number&#8217; that is 1 digit greater than the last one generated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3d. Other options:&nbsp;&nbsp;We suggest leaving most of these options as they are, except for<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the&nbsp;<strong>Default Laboratory<\/strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp;If most or all of your lab work is done at a particular&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;location, even your own, then it may be a time-saver to set a default here.&nbsp;<strong>HL7&nbsp;&nbsp;Trigger Enable<\/strong>is used to send messages to an EMR application, such as LytecMD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3e.&nbsp;&nbsp;Insurance Claims:&nbsp;&nbsp;Set both&nbsp;<strong>Default new diagnosis version<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Default new insurance code set<\/strong>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<strong>ICD-10<\/strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is recommended to set&nbsp;<strong>Diagnoses Per Page<\/strong>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<strong>12<\/strong>, even if you don\u2019t use that many on a claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.2kmedicalbilling.net\/Lytec-Blog\/images\/image003-2.png?ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;On the main menu bar, click&nbsp;Admin, then&nbsp;Preferences.&nbsp;&nbsp;Do be aware, these preferences apply to the entire practice, we will look at User-specific preferences in a later section of this guide. 2.&nbsp;&nbsp;On the Preferences window, there are 10 tabs with different options affecting different areas of the program.&nbsp;&nbsp;Let\u2019s take a look at the first tab (screenshot on &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.2kmedicalbilling.net\/Lytec-Blog\/set-up-program-preferences-in-lytec\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to setup Program Preferences in Lytec<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.2kmedicalbilling.net\/Lytec-Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Medisoft-Key-3.png?fit=750%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paWDIq-43","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":952,"url":"https:\/\/www.2kmedicalbilling.net\/Lytec-Blog\/lytec-patient-color-coding\/","url_meta":{"origin":251,"position":0},"title":"Custom Color Coding of Patients","date":"March 17, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/464559647 Color-coding has been added to patients so that you can create a set of colors that represent various tags or identities that you can assign to selected patients with a color coding for instant identification of that patient based on the color shown when performing a Find Patient lookup.Only\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;What's New&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Lytec Patient Color Coding","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.2kmedicalbilling.net\/Lytec-Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Color-Coding.png?fit=592%2C473&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1083,"url":"https:\/\/www.2kmedicalbilling.net\/Lytec-Blog\/lytec-2022-dashboard\/","url_meta":{"origin":251,"position":1},"title":"New Dashboards in Lytec 2022","date":"January 25, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"New Practice Financial DashboardThe Practice Financial Dashboard has three informational sections.\u2022 Production Report, including breakdown of Charges, Payments, Adjustments\u2022 A line graph of Charges and Payments\u2022 Adjusted Net Collection PercentageEach of the sections displays data based on the current system date at the time is it displayed. 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