All the legacy systems have an open interface with CFMS which translates the old code to the new and flags a transaction as pass or fail. Rochelle is the point person on open interface. After this CFMS moves the transaction forward with posting and other functions. As legacy systems move off the only place fiscal data will be will be in the CFMS system. Gary Nation from Health Care Policy Finance explained the difficulties as resulting from transition.
Counties do prior authorization for transportation.
But when it exceeds certain amounts then they send the PAR are back to county and the authorization on to Consultec. There was a period of 6 weeks where Consultec did not know to send the PAR to get approved. This has now been discovered and should be corrected soon. The old system was paper but this should be able to be submitted electronically. Only half of the counties have a transportation billing number.