Bp Premier Spectra SP1 Revision 3 Release Notes

Billing

As part of the ongoing support for the Chronic Condition Management (CCM) changes introduced on 1 July 2025, Bp Premier has introduced new claiming logic to improve the handling of relevant MBS item numbers across the finalise visit and invoicing workflows.

MBS Items in the Finalise Visit screen

Bp Premier will now suggest appropriate CCM item numbers when a user Finalises a Visit involving the preparation or review of a GPCCMP. Bp Premier will determine the correct item based on provider type (VR or Non-VR) and visit type (face-to-face or telehealth):

Vocationally Registered (VR) GPs:

• Face-to-face: 965 (creation), 967 (review)
• Telehealth (video): 92029 (creation), 92030 (review).

Non-Vocationally Registered (Non-VR) GPs:

• Face-to-face: 392 (creation), 393 (review)
• Telehealth (video): 92060 (creation), 92061 (review).

Co-Claiming Logic

Bp Premier will now enforce co-claiming restrictions when CCM items are added during the finalise visit or invoicing workflows. These restrictions reflect current Medicare billing rules and are supported by system prompts where applicable. The following co-claiming rules are applied:

• 965 / 392 cannot be billed with any other attendance item number.
• 967/393 cannot be billed within a 3-month period unless there are extenuating circumstances.
• 92029/92060 (telehealth creation) cannot be billed with any other attendance item number.
• 92030/92061 (telehealth review) cannot be billed within a 3-month period unless there are extenuating circumstances.

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Billing

From November 1 2025, as part of the new incentive program, changes will be made to bulk billed long-acting reversible contraceptive services (LARCs). These changes include:

• Increasing fees for the existing LARC insertion and removal items (35503, 35506, 14206, 30062)
• Introduction of new items for Nurse Practitioners for insertion and removal (82201, 82202, 82203)
• Introduction of new loading items that will provide 40% of the fee of the relevant LARC administration item when bulk billed:
  1. 35501 for GPs and Specialists
  2. 82204 for Nurse Practitioners.

For the loading item to be payable, the patient cannot be charged any out-of-pocket costs for any MBS items claimed in the LARC insertion or removal appointment, including any co-claimed items relating to provision of the LARC service.

Best Practice has added new tables where required in the database to record loading items and their applicable percentage.

Learn more about these changes from the complete article.

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Bp Comms

When a user selects a document from Correspondence In or Investigations and clicks the Email copy to patient button, Bp Premier now performs an automatic check against the patient’s Bp Comms Consent Settings.

Users will be alerted in the following scenarios:

• If the patient has opted out of receiving electronic messages, Bp Premier will display a message advising: The patient has chosen to opt out of receiving any electronic messages.
• If the patient has not opted out but has no consent options selected under Clinical Communication (e.g. Results, Clinical Messages), Bp Premier will display the following message: The ability to Send Clinical Communication messages must be enabled to perform this action.

These consent checks occur automatically when attempting to email a document and are designed to ensure that practices are alerted to missing or incomplete consent settings before sending electronic communications.

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Bp Email

HTML documents can now be emailed directly from Patient Record > Investigations.

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Bp Email

Correspondence items can be emailed directly to patients as PDF file attachments from the Correspondence In screen in the Patient Record.

The following document and image file formats may be emailed directly from Patient Record > Correspondence In:

• Documents: PDF, RTF, DOC, DOCX, HTML and TXT.
• Images: JPG, JPEG, TIF, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF and MTIF.

Correspondence items will be delivered as a PDF attachment and secured with a PIN. The PIN is mandatory and cannot be removed.

Only one item of Correspondence can be emailed to the patient at a time.

An Action will be created in Today's notes to show that the email has been sent, and a Contact Note will be generated for all Correspondence In items sent via Email.

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Database Integrations

The Setup Third Party Integrations window has been transitioned to a standalone utility. The utility can be launched from the following locations:

• File Path: C:\Program Files\Best Practice Software\BPS\BPSupport\BP.ThirdPartyIntegrations.exe
• Within Bp Premier: Select Setup > Configuration > Database > Setup Third Party Integrations.

When launching the Setup Third-Party Integration Utility from the file path, users will be prompted to enter their login details. Only users with User Permissions to access the Configuration will be able to proceed.

When launching the Setup Third-Party Integration Utility from within Bp Premier, the utility will open without prompting the user to log in.

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Bp Email

Resolved an issue that resulted in TX Control and Document Viewer errors when sending multiple Investigation Reports to patients as a PDF file attachment in the Patient Record.

Callstack Indicator:

• BPDOCUMENTVIEWER:TEXTCONTROLPAGEWIDTH:ASSIGN Line: 3
• DOCUMENTVIEWER:SETPAGESIZE Line: 74

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Observations

Resolved an issue that was occurring when adding in Observations for Assessments where the Observation time would be incorrectly recorded as 0:00 am.

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Patient Record

Resolved an issue in the patient record where clicking Print on HTML document types in Investigation Reports, Correspondence In, or Correspondence Out would result in the HTML document not being printed.

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Third-party integrations

Resolved an issue in which SQL logins and application roles were not restored in BPSDrugs when restoring a backup or after running a full drug replacement.

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