Release notes

Here's all the cool stuff we've been working on...

Jan 2026

• Completed a major overhaul of PDPM assessments, including PT, OT, and SLP case-mix group calculations, GG measures, BIMS scoring, comorbidities, assistive devices, and tighter validation rules
• Added AI- and rule-based PDPM suggestions, improved suggestion UX, clearer icons, better typing, and ensured suggestions properly dirty forms
• Improved admission workflows, including moving PDPM assessments into admissions, enhancing navigation, validating reference dates, and refining clinical category logic
• Significantly expanded and refactored the measures system, including discontinued goals, validation improvements, cleaner utilities, better form layouts, and clearer separation of concerns
• Reworked service logs end-to-end: unified service log models, added Zod validation, enforced co-treatment and concurrent treatment limits, improved progress indicators, and fixed multiple edge cases
• Enhanced case, evaluation, recertification, progress report, treatment, and discharge forms with improved typings, standardized layouts, and better UI consistency
• Restructured treatments to live directly under cases (not certifications), enabling more flexible workflows and support for treatments without evaluations
• Added better handling of locking and date constraints, preventing edits prior to locked dates and invalid measurement timing
• Improved cloud function reliability through extensive refactoring, helper utilities, stricter assertions, and cleaner schema enforcement
• Refined case timelines and document views, including payor details, improved navigation, and clearer sectioning
• Removed deprecated or redundant features, including the AI chatbot and unused measure forms
• Improved time zone handling, date validation messaging, and tooltip coverage across the app
• Fixed numerous UI bugs and edge cases, including drag-and-drop issues, hydration errors, infinite re-renders, sidebar navigation glitches, and broken buttons
• Updated ICD-10 data sources and improved resilience when codes load slowly
• Reduced AI prompt size and complexity while improving suggestion accuracy
• Cleaned up and modernized large portions of the TypeScript codebase, improving maintainability and compile-time safety
• Updated dependencies, build tooling, and internal documentation
• Improved overall performance, stability, and developer ergonomics

Dec 2025

• Rebranded from Satxuma to RehabAlpha (docs, logos, and color palette)
• Added missing speech-language pathology CPT codes and updated terminology to “speech-language pathologists”
• Improved AI prompts and safeguards, including admissions context and prevention of invalid ICD-10 code suggestions
• Fixed multiple data deletion bugs across treatments, evaluations, coverages, admissions, and user invites
• Implemented full evaluation lifecycle support, including creating, saving without dirty state, deleting, and supporting cases without evaluations
• Added measures to case forms and improved evaluation and case-related UI throughout the app
• Enhanced notices system reliability, including snoozing, cleanup of outdated notices, refresh logic, and migration to scheduled cloud functions
• Improved coverage, billing period, and authorization validation and UI behavior across multiple edge cases
• Allowed contracts to have no end date and clarified required date and time fields in complex scenarios
• Significantly improved UI consistency and usability, especially for timelines, admissions, recerts, progress reports, discharges, and low-resolution screens
• Added scroll spy navigation to more pages and standardized headers and article layouts
• Fixed role- and scheduling-related issues when users change roles within an organization
• Improved security rules, subscription cleanup, and overall state management reliability
• Updated documentation extensively, including admissions, facilities, coverages, authorizations, notices, and progress report timing
• Updated packages and build tooling, including migrating to the new ESLint flat config format
• Fixed numerous smaller bugs, build issues, and visual inconsistencies
• Improved overall performance and stability

Nov 2025

• Allowed nullable end dates for contracts, billing periods, coverages, and time logs to support ongoing items (matching admissions behavior)
• Improved date handling in the UI for admissions and coverages
• Improved time zone handling across the app
• Implemented role-based tables for physicians, staff, and others (replacing the single master table)
• Restructured the Payors and Facilities tables
• Moved Delete actions for facilities, payors, people, etc. into a unified “Danger Zone” section in settings
• Expanded user permissions
• Improved the AI suggestions prompt
• Implemented rule-based and AI-based suggestions for clinical documentation
• Prefilled rule-based suggestions for new cases based on patient history
• Ensured proper deletion of subcollections when a facility or patient is deleted
• Removed the isActive property from person and facility documents
• Added suggestions for treatment diagnoses
• Added treatments to the Upcoming table on the user dashboard
• Prevented unlinking a user when they are the last admin in the organization
• Displayed a brief checkmark icon on successful form submissions when no redirect occurs
• Prevented changing a facility’s type while it is linked to active therapy cases
• Incorporated patient age and gender into AI prompts
• Supported multiple suggestions for a single form field
• Fixed miscellaneous bugs
• Improved performance

Oct 2025

• Implemented permissions form
• Refactored prior hospitalization to no longer reference an admission
• Introduced basic AI suggestions for evaluations, recerts, progress reports, and discharges
• Improved unit test coverage
• Moved Invite and Delete buttons from the header to the settings section
• Updated the Quick Start Guide
• Added preliminary setup for the facility invoice report (not yet implemented)
• Improved the billing period view UI
• Dynamically included GG wheelchair measures based on assistive device usage
• Revised the list of template measures, including GG categorizations
• Refactored measures to support template categories and N/A Categories
• Allowed events to include an end date without requiring an end time
• Locked documents from editing once a signature or signature request is present
• Implemented Create Coverage dialog for adding coverage on the fly
• Added tooltips throughout the interface to clarify field meanings
• Added a checkbox to include or exclude private payors in the coverage form payor selector
• Improved the display and layout of case cards
• Removed title field from treatment documents
• Implemented Fee-for-Service and Tiered Rates contract types
• Fixed miscellaneous bugs

Sep 2025

• Added reportsTo field to store organizational structure
• Added title field to store employee titles
• Added employmentPeriods field to track employment history for therapists, physicians, and non-clinical staff
• Added contraindications field to evaluations, recerts, and discharges
• Added height and weight fields for patients
• Added customizable N/A Categories to measures to support non-applicable measurements
• Restructured measures into tabs to reduce space usage in evaluations, recerts, etc.
• Improved error handling for measures
• Implemented measure locks to prevent data changes after a document is signed
• Implemented the ability to discontinue a measure (without deleting it)
• Implemented the ability to restore discontinued measures
• Improved measure graphs
• Prevented role changes after assignment
• Standardized UI for forms and views
• Added speech CPT codes 97129 and 97130
• Fixed miscellaneous bugs
• Added PDPM section to billing periods for Medicare Part A payors
• Modified service logs to support minutes (duration) for all codes, including non–time-based codes, to improve productivity tracking
• Implemented tooltips to explain UI elements directly within the interface
• Improved performance

Aug 2025

• Implemented Coverages
• Added a Data Model guide
• Improved the appearance of admission cards
• Implemented a facility-level timezone selector and propagated it to related records
• Updated combobox text to be more descriptive than “Select values”
• Implemented billing periods within admissions
• Automatically created a private payor and default coverage for all new patients
• Fixed miscellaneous bugs
• Improved performance

July 2025

• Added documentation and launched a blog (including this one!)
• Added an AI chatbot powered by Google Gemini
• Added a global progress bar that appears during navigation and loading states
• Added notices for expired treatments that do not have a resolution
• Updated the ICD-10 code list to include all codes
• Began implementation of Download PDF functionality for evals, recerts, treatments, etc. (not yet finished)
• Tracked and stored time-based and non–time-based CPT codes differently
• Added support for facility contracts
• Allowed users to mark themselves as available for treatment even outside scheduled hours
• Added tag support to all documents (certifications, progress reports, treatments, and discharges)
• Fixed miscellaneous bugs
• Improved performance

June 2025

• Released our new promo video
• Added treatments to the schedule page
• Added a resolution field to treatments
• Added a therapist field to treatments, progress reports, evaluations, recertifications, and discharges
• Added documentation-due cards to the case timeline
• Populated the therapist field by default when creating a new treatment
• Added treatment plan descriptions to cases and certifications
• Removed the locality field (now implied by state and county)
• Improved combobox behavior and consistency
• Prevented selecting a therapist without a valid license for the state of the admission
• Added a warning when the selected therapist is not an active user
• Corrected the case timeline sort order
• Improved case timeline colors
• Improved notices throughout the app
• Standardized colors for progress reports, evaluations, treatments, etc. across all pages
• Implemented statistics on the schedule page
• Added avoidTherapists and avoidPatients to planner settings
• Added therapist and patient scheduling settings
• Added autoscheduling settings for treatment documents
• Implemented a “treatments per week” treatment plan option
• Fixed miscellaneous bugs
• Improved performance