Ursa Health Pharmacy Module Release Notes

updates to Outpatient Medication Fills Aggregator for URSA-PHARM Concepts to use Medi-Span logic and not Red Book

submitting before we make NDC ref logic updates

Removed references in a measure to (orphaned) CMS Place of Service Code / Description fields, which have recently been removed from several URSA-CORE encounter-level objects (as misleading / confusing).

Handful of measure changes downstream of field changes associated with new URSA-CORE grouper / encounter logic.

Handling upstream field name correction in the URSA-CORE encounter objects (MS-DRG MDC Code Description to MS-DRG MDC Description)

More remapping fields affected by de-truncation of long column names.

Remapped fields on objects / measures affected by the de-truncation of long column names.

Removed Master Data Management from Outpatient Medication Fills Aggregator for URSA-PHARM Concepts object to improve performance; replacing the MDM functionality with manual creation of the Lifetime Medication Treatment Episode ID field. Object runs much faster now; relatedly, changed the ingredient hash to use GPI and Patient ID + Prescription Number as backups.

Updated Outpatient Medication Fills Aggregator for URSA-PHARM Concepts object to exclude devices and other non-medication products.