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The Cognizant offices will be closed for the upcoming dates/holidays:

  • Tuesday, November 11 (Veterans Day)
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  • Thursday, December 25 (Christmas)
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Release: 24.2.42

Our next release is currently scheduled for deployment Tuesday, October 28, 2025.  During this time, the Connect application will not be available. 

Deployment Schedule:

  • BEGIN: Tuesday, 10/28/25 @ 9:00 P.M. CDT
  • COMPLETION: Wednesday, 10/29/25 @ 4:00 A.M. CDT

CONNECT User Summit 2025 Recordings

CONNECT User Summit 2025 has wrapped! It was another great year of shared knowledge and asked/answered questions. We hope everyone enjoyed their sessions.

For any of you that were unable to attend or were wanting to revisit a topic that was discussed, we recorded the sessions this year and are posting them here for your reference. Let us know if you have any follow-up questions/comments on anything discussed. We are always happy to help!

CONNECT User Summit 2025 Session Recordings

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About Connect Help

 What's New?

Support Documentation

Welcome to Connect, a platform consisting of multiple applications used for managing elements related to medical billing.

The Help Documentation guides you through using Connect via topics which provide:

  • Page, window, and field definitions
  • Step-by-step guides for common system processes
  • Links to helpful training videos and support documentation
  • Access to current and past release notes

The latest Connect release is 24.2.42. Highlights of this release include the following:

Case Hold Reasons

  • Fixed issue preventing new Case Hold Reasons being created from appearing in the application for selection.

Charge Batches

  • Added new Provider column to the following tabs to view the Rendering Provider from the EDC import: 
    • Charge Batches / EDC Files
    • Charge Batches / Charge Batch / EDC Files
  • Fixed issue preventing Eligibility Status from refreshing when new line is selected in the Charge Batches/Eligibility tab.

​​​​​Charge Entry

  • Fixed issue preventing the Charge Received Date entered when scanning a batch to pull forward and populate the Coding Form.

​​​​​Collections Admin

  • Updated logic so the Collection Letter Delete button is not enabled if the letter has been utilized.

​​​​​Payers & Plans

  • Updated Practice field logic to only display the practices to which the user is associated in dropdowns on the following:
    • Payers / Groups IDs / General ID Type / General Group ID
    • Payers / Group IDs / General ID Type / Facility-Specific
    • Payers / Provider IDs
    • Plans / Groups IDs / General ID Type / Facility-Specific
    • Plans / Provider IDs

Reports

  • Updated the Account Adjustment Analysis Detail report:
    • Added the Suffix after the Last Name of the Rendering Provider.
  • Updated the Account Summary report:
    • Added the Person Note field
  • Fixed issue causing the Financial Account Summary report to not display/export correctly in CSV or Excel formats when utilizing the Group By options.
  • Fixed issue that was generating a “Document has no pages” error message from appearing when running or utilizing drill-in links for the AR Aging Analysis Detail and Financial Activity Summary Detail reports.

To view the full release notes for the current Connect release, click here

Latest Training Tutorials

Some Help topics include video tutorials, tip sheets, or how-to-guides, which provide visual, step-by-step instructions on how to complete the task. Click one of the links below to access the topics with related materials.

**Scroll to the bottom of the linked page to find the associated video or document.**

This link has all the session recordings for you in one place!

    • Creating 2025 Fee Schedules (1/21/25)
    • Editing Payments (8/25/23)
    • Submitting Support Tickets (6/28/23)
    • DMA eStatements (4/25/23)
    • Moving Money Between Ext. Coll. & Active AR (9/29/22)
    • Rebills, Rebills, Rebills (2/22/23)
    • Working the Collections Queue (3/22/23)
  • Statement Processing
  • User Summit

 

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Third Party company names and product names may be referenced in this documentation and may be claimed as trademarks by their respective companies; it is not the intention of Cognizant to claim any such names as its own. Throughout this documentation, trademarked names may be used. All person names and information in Connect Help documents are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.  

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