Quick Reference — To configure a department for UDS reporting
If your organization submits UDS reports, you can designate a department as a service delivery site for UDS reporting. The Departments page provides two fields for these departments:
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UDS School-Based Health Center — Use this field to specify whether the department is a school-based health center.
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UDS Public Housing Department — Use this field to specify whether the department is a public housing health center.
Note: These fields appear on the Departments page only for organizations that have at least one department designated as a federally qualified health center (FQHC) on the Department Government Designations page.
UDS reports use these fields to determine whether a patient was seen at a school-based site or at a service delivery site located in or immediately accessible to public housing. Visits in school-based sites and public housing departments are included in patient counts in UDS Table 4. Also, athenaOne uses the information in the UDS Public Housing Department field when you select Public Housing from the Special Population filter (Table 3A, Table 3B, Table 4, Table 5, or Table 6A).
- Display the Departments page: On the Main
Menu, click Settings
> Billing. In the left menu, under Practice Links — Departments, click Departments. - Click the update
link for the department. The department details appear in the fields at the top of the page.
Note: If you're creating a new department, complete the required fields (see To add a new department). - UDS School-Based Health Center — Select Y.
Visits in school-based departments are counted in UDS Table 4. - UDS Public Housing Department — Select Y.
Visits in public housing departments are counted in UDS Table 4 and are used in UDS special population reporting. - Click Save.