SUNIX News & Vision Usage

Medicare Online

The Medicare certificate for HIC Online is expiring, so practices that runs the Vision interface to HIC Online must update to version 11.C02a or above. After the update, at the computer that submits Medicare claims:

1. exit out of Vision, and re-start Vision

2. go to Maintenance - HIC Online Setup to click onto "Create PSI Store",

3. if it asks you "Are you sure you want to create a new PSI store", click Yes

4. if it asks you "Are you sure you want to delete the existing PSI store", click Yes.

Australian Medicare & DVA Fees Update

For practices that are in Maintenance, you can run the latest Vision Elite Update anytime before 01/11/2010. Then the first time you start Vision on 01/11/2010, it will automatically ask you whether you want the Medicare and Patient consultation fees as well as the DVA fees for both consultation and appliances to be changed.

(This Fee Change program does not activate until 01/11/2010, which means you don't have to wait until the day of 01/11/2010 to run the Vision Update. You should  run the Vision Update a few days before 01/11/2010.)

NZ GST Update

For practices that are in Maintenance, you can run the latest Vision Elite Update anytime before 01/10/2010. Then the first time you start Vision on 01/10/2010, it will automatically ask you whether you want to change all the GST rates to 15%, with separate options to also change the retail price of Frame, Sundry, Item No, Spec Lenses, Contact Lenses, Lens Extra and Fitting Fee in Frame Type. (This GST program does not activate until 01/10/2010, which means you don't have to wait until the day of 01/10/2010 to run the Vision Update. You can run the Vision Update a few days or 1-2 weeks before 01/10/2010.)

For practices that want to re-price and re-tag the frames before 01/10/2010, after you run the Vision Update, there is a separate program in the V2K folder, called NZframeRRPincrease, which you can run to increase the frame retail prices first. Then in Vision, you can "Print Barcode by Purchase Date". If you leave all the boxes blank, it will give you a list of all frames in stock. Then you can print barcodes for all the frames. Otherwise, you can wait until 01/10/2010 to increase the Frame RRP the same time as you increase the others, and re-print the frame barcode then.

In other words, there is no need to do anything before 01/10/2010 other than running the Vision Elite Update (and the optional Frame RRP increase program if you want to re-tag the frames a day or two beforehand).

Vision Hicaps Interface Update

For practices that are currently running the Vision Hicaps Interface for private health fund (i.e. there is a cable connecting the Hicaps terminal and your computer), please email fs.sunix@optusnet.com.au for an update of the Vision Hicaps Interface. According to Hicaps, all Hicaps Interface must get updated by end of Aug. But if you are currently not running the Vision Hicaps Interface (i.e. there is no cable connecting the Hicaps terminal and your computer), you do not have to install the interface and there is no deadline on when to add the interface. You can continue to use the Hicaps independently from the computer, or add the interface lateron any time.

Eyetalk Update

The latest issue of Eyetalk requires the latest version of SUNIX Vision before you can run the Eyetalk Import/Update.

Health Fund Newsletter

To send out Newsletters for all patients that are in private health but have not purchased spectacles or contact lenses this year:

1. If you haven't already set up the Newsletter Template yet, you need to go to Maintenance, Letter Template - Newsletter, to create a newsletter template (make sure the Mail Merge is set up properly)

2. Go to Patient, then Create Newsletter List

• at "Health Fund", enter *

• tick "Exclude Patients with Spec record"

• tick "Exclude Patients with CL record"

• enter Exclusion from 1st Jan this year to Today

• at "Letter Name", press F5 or right-click to select the letter that you already set up