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Integrations
Extend the functionality of Bluechip by integrating other applications or services.
Day Surgery
Day Surgery can be used as a stand-alone application or together with Bluechip to manage specialist surgeries and day hospitals.
About Day Surgery Price Lists within Bluechip
Service Item Numbers

Integrations
Extend the functionality of Bluechip by integrating other applications or services.
- Day Surgery
  Day Surgery can be used as a stand-alone application or together with Bluechip to manage specialist surgeries and day hospitals.
  - Why a Day Surgery Module?
  - Installing Day Surgery
    Day Surgery module can be used as a stand-alone application.
  - Installing Day Surgery with Bluechip
    The Day Surgery module can be used in conjunction with Bluechip.
  - About Day Surgery Price Lists within Bluechip
  - Creating the Day Surgery Service Item List within Bluechip
  - Copying Service Item Lists
  - Creating an Episode for a New Patient
  - Creating an Episode for an Existing Patient
  - Reopening an Episode
  - Reopening an Episode – Billing
  - Completion of the Episode – Diagnoses Tab
  - Completion of the Episode – Ext Causes
  - Completion of the Episode - Procedures
    The Procedures tab allows entry of the procedures actually performed by the Day Surgery to be used for reporting purposes to the relevant governing body.
  - Completion of the Episode – Notes
  - Exporting for Reporting Purposes
  - Appendix A – Non MBS Items
  - Appendix B – Termination of Pregnancy (WA Only)
  - Appendix C – Financial Tab (VIC only)
    The Financial Tab only appears in the Victorian version of Day Surgery to meet that state's data collection requirements.
  - Appendix D – Drugs Tab
  - Appendix E - Other (VIC only)
    The Other tab is applicable for the Victorian version of Day Surgery as part of their reporting process.
  - Appendix F – Advanced Options
  - Appendix G – Cancer Registry (NSW Only)
  - Appendix H – Miscellaneous
- Clinical
  From Bluechip 2.5, practices that use Bluechip with Clinical will be able to take advantage of enhanced connectivity between the two applications.
- Surgical Partners
  Integrate Bluechip with Surgical Partners' Integration platform to assist with finances and billing.
- Endoscribe
- Scribes

Service Item Numbers

Payments to the Day Procedure Centre are solely for the 'use' of the facility and are not related to the surgeon's fees that the patient receives. Therefore the MBS fee list found in Bluechip is not used within a Day Procedural Centre environment unless the Centre is also providing billing for the performing practitioner.

Instead, MedicalDirector recommends creating custom Service Item lists for each health fund. Some Service Item numbers are created based upon a modified MBS Service Item number used to identify the surgical/medical services offered. Their descriptions and the Service Item fees are changed as required to show the health fund negotiated rate. Other Service Item numbers are created to account for accommodation and theatre banding levels.

The advantages of following this consistent approach in creating custom price lists for each health fund are:

Generation of invoices for heath funds
Reporting to health funds, the PHDB and Department of Health
Providing Service Item analysis for management
If Prosthetics and Disposables are used in the Centre, only one price list needs to be setup as the reimbursement amount by the health fund is set at the national level.