Interventions Test Equivalent Codes or Descriptions

NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine Help Enterprise 8.3.1

Panels Used in Setting Up Orderable Items

You can set up the orderable items for a patient associated with orders in the NextGen Adaptive Content Engine. The Orderable items (formerly protocols), are associated with orders in the NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine, they have CPT® billing and compendium codes. Panel Description Manage Groups and Options Enables you to provide the functionality to create to guidelines based on the reason types. Define Guideline Reasons & Auto Application Enables you to define guidelines for a condition or disease. Interventions / Orders Setup Enables you to set up lab tests, diagnostic studies, and examinations (orderable items) for a guideline. Interventions/Test Equivalent Codes/Descriptions Intervention Equivalents section Enables you to set up any test descriptions or billing codes that are equivalent synonyms for a test defined in a guideline using either a description or a test code. You do not have to enter both. Document Types/Codifications section Enables you to use the Document Types/Cod

NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine Help Enterprise 8.3.1

View Intervention Equivalents and Codes for a Guideline Test

You can view and add the intervention equivalent descriptions and codes for a patient's guideline. Open NextGen® Enterprise EHR. From File, select System \ Practice Template.The Select Template window opens. On the Practice tab, select the All option. Select Care Guideline Setup, and then select OK.The Care Guideline Setup practice template opens. Expand the Interventions/Test Equivalent Codes/Descriptions panel, and then in Intervention/Test Name, select a guideline test.All descriptions and codes configured for the selected guideline test appear in the panel. The File Maintenance Mappings grid displays the test code mappings to the selected test available in the NextGen test compendium. File Maintenance Mappings The Intervention Equivalents section displays all descriptions and codes currently in the system that are equivalent ways of identifying to the selected test: The Intervention description equivalent grid displays all descriptions configured for the test. The Intervention code

NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine Help Enterprise 8.3.1

Add or Update a Test Description for an Intervention Equivalent

You can document a description of an intervention or a test for a patient's guideline. Open NextGen® Enterprise EHR. From File, select System \ Practice Template.The Select Template window opens. On the Practice tab, select the All option. Select Care Guidelines Setup, and then select OK.The Care Guideline Setup practice template opens. Expand the Interventions/Test Equivalent Codes/Descriptions panel, and then in Intervention/Test Name, select a test.The File Maintenance Mappings grid displays the test code mappings to the selected test available in the NextGen test compendium. The Intervention Equivalents section shows all descriptions and codes currently in the system that are equivalent ways of identifying to the selected test. To add a intervention description equivalent, select Intervention description equivalent, and then select Add/Update.The new description appears in the grid. Test Equivalents To update a intervention description equivalent, select the description in the Desc

NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine Help Enterprise 8.3.1

Map the Test or Code Information on the Care Guidelines Setup Practice Template

You can map the test or code information using the Care Guidelines Setup practice template. Practices can map test codes and descriptions to guidelines on the Interventions/Test Equivalent Codes/Descriptions panel of the Care Guidelines Setup practice template. You can specify items as exact equivalents and make items orderable on the Care Guidelines Paged View and the Care Guidelines grid view templates. Open NextGen® Enterprise EHR. From File, select System \ Practice Template.The Select Template window opens. On the Practice tab, select the All option. Select Care Guideline Setup, and then select OK.The Care Guideline Setup practice template opens. Expand the Interventions/Test Equivalent Codes/Descriptions panel. Select the test name to be mapped from the list. Add the test information in the Intervention Equivalents. Optional: To make the test available to order when selecting the guideline from the Care Guidelines template, select the Orderable checkbox. Save and close the templa

NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine Help Enterprise 8.3.1

Intervention Equivalents Overview

You can select a guideline for a patient and configure Intervention Equivalents. The Intervention Equivalents section is where the different descriptions and CPT® codes for the same test are configured. This function enables you to use the name or the code they prefer, and the system is able to recognize what it is. Configured intervention equivalents are global, and can be used throughout the system. All of the different ways a guideline item or test can be named are referred to as synonyms or aliases. The Intervention Equivalents section enables you to configure equivalents for the selected test. For example, breast MRI may have two different CPT® codes, or may have different descriptions when performed at different labs. The equivalents get added to the Intervention code equivalent data set in the Data Sets Setup practice template. Tests configured displays on selected flowsheets on the Flowsheets Setup practice template. CAUTION: Equivalents (or synonyms) should only be created for

NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine Help Enterprise 8.3.1

Mapping the Test or Code Information on the Practice Setup Templates

You can map the test or code information using the Care Guidelines Setup practice template. After you have acquired the codes and descriptions for each guideline, they need to be added as mappings to the care guidelines setup for the practice. You can review the Guideline Equivalents/Alternatives on the Care Guidelines Setup practice template. You can review the Test Codes data set in the Data Sets Setup practice template. Map the Test or Code Information on the Data Sets Setup Practice Template You can map the test or code information using the Data Sets Setup practice template. Map the Test or Code Information on the Care Guidelines Setup Practice Template You can map the test or code information using the Care Guidelines Setup practice template. Mapping Procedure Module Codes in NextGen Adaptive Content Engine 8.4.x and Later You can map codes to data sets that are configured using the Data Sets Setup practice template. Parent topic: Set Up Tests and Orders to Update Care Guidelines

Interventions Test Equivalent Codes or Descriptions

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Panels Used in Setting Up Orderable Items

View Intervention Equivalents and Codes for a Guideline Test

Add or Update a Test Description for an Intervention Equivalent

Map the Test or Code Information on the Care Guidelines Setup Practice Template

Intervention Equivalents Overview

Mapping the Test or Code Information on the Practice Setup Templates

Interventions Test Equivalent Codes or Descriptions

Panels Used in Setting Up Orderable Items

View Intervention Equivalents and Codes for a Guideline Test

Add or Update a Test Description for an Intervention Equivalent

Map the Test or Code Information on the Care Guidelines Setup Practice Template

Intervention Equivalents Overview

Mapping the Test or Code Information on the Practice Setup Templates