Request for Information Reports

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This report displays all requests that are not finalized. It lists only the items pending for each patient request. The number of elapsed days (total work days passed since the request was logged) is displayed which may be useful in keeping track of outstanding requests. The user may choose to sort the report by regional office number and division. If the user chooses to report for a specific division, any 7131 that has that division responsible for any portion of the request is included.

Requests may appear on this report with no items listed as pending. These are requests where the final item(s) have been completed but the request itself has not yet been finalized by the system. This should be a rare occurrence. If this does occur, the user should wait 24 hours to see if the auto-finalization program remedies the situation.

If the auto-finalization program did not run, the user may use the Request for 7131 Information options to edit the request. The IRM Service of the medical center the user is connecting to should be notified if it appears that the auto-finalization program is not set to run. Because the pending report may serve many divisions or remote sites, the division responsible for the completion of the request is displayed at the top of each printed record.

This option is used to print 21-Day Certificates that were previously requested. They must have been completed and released by VHA before they can be printed. ROC 119, which appears at the bottom of each certificate, stands for VA Form 119. If the length of stay for the selected episode of care is 21 days or greater, a certificate is generated regardless of the request date.

It should also be noted that upon generation of a certificate, the system will automatically modify the existing 7131 request for the veteran to show requests for a Notice of Discharge and Hospital Summary. This is done ONLY if they are not already requested, or were requested and previously completed. If there are no new 21-Day Certificates to print, CAPRI displays a message. The only prompt is for device selection.

This option is used to reprint all 21-Day Certificates by the original processing date or an individual certificate if a patient’s CAPRI record has been previously selected. The user must know the date the certificate was originally printed to reprint by date. The certificate produced is the same as the original certificate. ROC 119, which appears at the bottom of each certificate, stands for VA Form 119 – Report of Contact.

Items such as a Notice of Discharge are automatically tracked and issued ONLY when the event occurs.  At that point, they become a 7132, Notice of Discharge.  From time to time, it may be necessary to reprint a Notice of Discharge for a patient. This option allows the user to reprint notices for all veterans for a selected processing date. If the admission associated with the 7131 was deleted and notification already sent, a message is displayed. The message includes the patient’s name, SSN, date and time of admission, notice that the admission has been deleted, and a recommendation to contact the medical center.