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NextGen Behavioral Health Suite Help 5.5

Generate the Missing Billing Report

Before you begin You must configure this report prior to generating this file for the first time. You can generate a reporting listing the charges that were posted from a NextGen® Behavioral Health Suite billable template but were never posted to the charges table in NextGen® Enterprise EHR. The report is run for all patient encounters and can be run for all providers or filtered for a selected provider. This report is helpful to find instances when there is an error between the billing template and the procedure module, and the chanrge is not processed properly into NextGen® Enterprise PM. It does not consider the charges that are voided or marked as voided or billed-in-error chanrges. From the File menu, select Reports and then Crystal Reports. Expand the All encounters for All Patient section. Select Missing Billing for All. Select Preview. Select a provider or ***All Provider***. Select OK. The report opens. Note: Encounters with charges in the NextGen® Clinical Message Manager als

NextGen Behavioral Health Suite Help 5.5

Generate the Templates with No Documentation Report

You can generate a report indicating when a NextGen® Behavioral Health Suite billing template has been started and saved to an encounter but no document has been saved to the encounter. The Templates with No Documentation report is run for all patient encounters and can be run for all providers or filtered for a selected provider. Note: You must configure this report prior to generating the file for the first time. From the File menu, select Reports and then Crystal Reports. Expand the All encounters for All Patient section. Select Templates with no document. Select Preview. Select a provider or ***All Provider***. Select OK. The report opens. Parent topic: Charges

NextGen Behavioral Health Suite Help 5.5

Generate the Overlapping BH Services Report

You can use Overlapping BH Services report to identify the services rendered with a patient that have overlapping start and stop time. The report displays the encounters that have overlapping start and stop times, which helps in identifying fraudulent billing or clinical documentation errors efficiently. Note: As a performance consideration, only run this report for a 30-days of maximum timespan. From the File menu, Select Reports and then select Crystal Reports. Expand the All encounters for All Patients section. Select Overlapping BH Services report and then select Preview. Select start and end dates. Select a provider or ***All provider***. Note: If you do not select any option from the provider filter, then the report will display for all providers. Select OK. Note: The services from the following templates are not included as overlapping services in the report. Art Meeting Note (BH) CFT Meeting Note (BH) Group Prog Note (BH) Staffing Note (BH) Template charges marked as Billed in

NextGen Behavioral Health Suite Help 5.5

Billing in a Behavioral Health Encounter

The NextGen® Behavioral Health Suite template set includes two areas that enable a provider to submit services codes to the Superbill. Which area you bill from is determined by the template used in your workflow. The two areas for NextGen® Behavioral Health Suite billing are: The Charges panel, available 3.5 (or later) version templates The Finalize template Once the charges are calculated and submitted to the Superbill, the NextGen® Enterprise PM receives the charges for the services with a Start and End Time, a CPT® or HCPCS service code, a diagnosis code, as well as the date of service and the name of the provider of service. NextGen® Enterprise PM requires this data to be able to evaluate whether the total of the duration times may be "rolled up." Users can view the submitted items and make any necessary updates. Charges The Charges panel enables you to bill for services rendered during the encounter. Behavioral Health E&M Coding Guidelines E&M Coding guidelines and the impact to c

NextGen Behavioral Health Suite Help 5.5

Complete Billing

When completing the ART Meeting Note, CFT Meeting Note, or Staffing Note templates, you use the Billing panel to submit your charges. To indicate the service is not billable, select No Billing for Service checkbox. Note: You can skip the remaining steps. To document Interpreter, Cultural, Counseling Details, select the respective link. In the Assigned Provider field, select a provider’s name from the list and then select Add. The providers name displays in the grid. Billing panel Enter a Start Time and End Time. The Duration field fills in. Note: If the end time is earlier than the start time, an alert appears prompting you to re-enter the start/stop time. This also occurs if the total duration is more than 12 hours. In the Provider field, select a name from the picklist. The names displayed in the list pull from the Assigned Provider field above. The Credential field displays the primary credential for the selected provider. Provider field Select the Service Code field and then select

NextGen Behavioral Health Suite Help 5.5

Additional BH Configuration

You can use the BH - Configuration practice template to set up the following options in NextGen® Behavioral Health Suite: ASAM Enables the ASAM template for your practice. Allow patient procedure activity against locked encounters Enables billing activity to occur without having to unlock encounters. Enable CCBHC requirements Displays additional fields for CCBHC content for practices required to adhere to reporting standards. Allow billing code submission without document Enables code submission on the Charges panel without documents present. Assessment/Reassessment Billing Enables you to show/hide fields on the Assessment/Diagnosis panel on the Assessment/Reassessment Billing template. ASAM panel Process Patient Billing Against Locked Encounters You can configure the practice for billing activity without unlocking the encounter. Display CCBHC Content You can configure the practice to display the CCBHC content. Enable Users to Submit Codes Before Document Generation You can configure t

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Generate the Missing Billing Report

Generate the Templates with No Documentation Report

Generate the Overlapping BH Services Report

Billing in a Behavioral Health Encounter

Complete Billing

Additional BH Configuration

Generate the Missing Billing Report

Generate the Templates with No Documentation Report

Generate the Overlapping BH Services Report

Billing in a Behavioral Health Encounter

Complete Billing

Additional BH Configuration