Appx Medicaid Payment Reconciliation Upgrade Instructions

APPX Software has released the latest upgrade to the Medicaid Payment Reconciliation application, Version 4.0. This upgrade introduces several new features and improvements. It also requires an upgrade to both the APPX engine along with the application. There have been a number of changes made with this update that do affect the way the application processes. While we have thouroughly tested these changes to ensure the application works as designed, you may wish to conduct your own testing.

This upgrade will require the assistance of your IT department. The upgrade to the APPX engine requires administrator rights and it is recommended that part of the update be done under the Administrator or root login rather than a user that is part of the adminsitrator's group if at all possible.

Click on the link below to review the upgrade instructions for the APPX engine.

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If you review the instructions and would like the APPX support staff to assist with this upgrade please contact us at 800-870-2779 or email us at MPR@appx.com and we will be happy to discuss the available options we have.

Upgrade the Application

Prior to starting the upgrade to the Payment Reciliation application make sure you have a good backup. You can accomplish this by simply copying the appx/data directory to a new name if you are not sure you have a current backup.

Download the two upgrade files. Save these files to an accessible location on your server.

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Identify the database and version ids for your installation. The database id is a 3 character value and the version is a 2 character value. One way to find them is to navigate to the directory where appx is installed. Under that directory is a data directory. Both the database and version are directories under the data directory. Both will contain a directory named MPR.

Log into APPX as an APPX administrator. From the first menu select the System Administration pull-down, then File Maintenamce, then Database Files. Enter your database id in the first box and MPR in the second and press Enter. The screen should now show 23 of 23 Files Currently Selected. From this menu select Verify Files Menu, then Verify Integrity of APPXIO Files. If any of the files have a status of FAILED the data is corrupt. The data will need to be recovered before you go on with the upgrade.

After you have verified the data files log off of APPX and open an OS dialog window.

For these instructions we will use c:\appx as the directory where appx has been installed. For you site replace that with the actual directory path on your server.

Navigate to the c:\appx\data\ directory. Move down to the version directory for your site. Rename the MPR directory. A common practice is to rename it with todays date, like MPR_030311.

Unzip the MPR40_apps.tgz file into this directory. It will create a new MPR directory.

Move into the database directory and copy the MPR directory there to a new name in the same manner as above.

Unzip the MPR40_data.tgz into this directory. This should add the files LINKS.dat and LINKS.key into the MPR\Data directory.

Make sure permissions are properly set on these directories and files. On Windows the Everyone group should have Full Control. On Unix and Linux the owner should be appx and the group should be appxgrp or a group that has all appx users as members. Permissions should be set to 775.

-- GaryRogers - 2011-02-28