Practice Configuration Options for Behavioral Health

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Edit Custom Behavioral Health Picklists

The Custom Picklist Setup system template is a depository of picklists that can be modified to fit your needs on fields in NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine templates in run time. The Behavioral Health section includes several picklists that are customizable at the system level. From the File menu, click System/Practice Template. On the System tab, set Show to All and double-click Custom Picklist Setup to open the template. If you have never used this template before, click the How to use this template link to open the information window. Figure 1. The customized template is used to add or edit values in Template Editor. For more information on how to use the Template Editor application, go to NextGen Healthcare Success Community, and download the Templates User Guide for NextGen® Enterprise EHR. Parent topic: Behavioral Health Configuration Options

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Behavioral Health Configuration Options

Several configuration steps must be reviewed and possibly implemented to complete the Behavioral Health workflows as outlined in this user guide: On the Practice Configuration system template, the Assessment/Diagnosis panel configuration enables seamless billing between the NextGen® Enterprise and NextGen® Enterprise PM applications Learn how to use the DSM IV and Behavioral Health-based Add or Update Assessment templates as part of your practice's workflow DSM IV or DSM-5 configuration for which code set standards appear on the documents A Signature panel option ensures that the configured procedures for billing a Behavioral Health encounter are enforced, including an alert option In File Maintenance, add Severity descriptions to meet DSM-5 documentation standards Billing configurations: Service Code Mapping system template File Maintenance provider level configuration The Home Page - Behavioral Health template: Some practices may find setting this home page as the default template fo

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DSM IV Configuration

Your practice has the option of displaying the DSM IV link on the Assessment/Diagnosis panel to document encounters according to the DSM IV manual. This configuration can be enabled on the Practice Configuration template or the Document Configuration practice template. The settings applied on either practice template are shared and do not need to be repeated. Once enabled, the link is made available on the Assessment/Diagnosis panel found throughout the Behavioral Health template set. Figure 1. . Assessment and Diagnosis Enable the DSM IV Link DSM Options for Behavioral Health Documents Signature Alert Configuration Parent topic: Practice Configuration Options for Behavioral Health

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Optimize Usage of Behavioral Health Templates

There is some setup involved to optimize usage of the behavioral health templates. In the Behavioral Health Configuration Options chapter, you learn that some of the setup is required and other parts are optional. The three main components required to successfully bill a behavioral health encounter are: Service code mapping Provider-level set up in two master files in File Maintenance Service Categories master file configuration There are optional settings on the Practice Configuration template that are specific to the Assessment/Diagnosis and Signatures panels. Other configurations that are not required apply to the Home Page – Behavioral Health template. The practice can elect to open the home page by default for every new encounter and can also decide which links appear on the Medical Chart Summary panel. For more information on additional configuration options and basic user interface functionality, go to NextGen Healthcare Success Community, and download the Getting Started User G

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DSM Options for Behavioral Health Documents

A practice-level setting is available on both the Practice Configuration and Document Configuration templates to determine which set of data (DSM IV or DSM-5) prints on generated documents. The settings applied on either practice template are shared and do not need to be repeated. Selecting the option to Display axes (DSM IV) in the Assessment/Diagnosis section of the Behavioral Health documents ensures that any information recorded on the BH - DSM IV template is included in the generated document for each encounter. This option is only available if the Specialty is set to Behavioral Health. Display Axes DSM IV in Behavioral Health Documents Parent topic: DSM IV Configuration

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Behavioral Health Common Assessment Page

The BH Assessment page that opens in the Add Common Assessment template includes the following updates for DSM-5: When the Practice Configuration practice template option to display a link for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fourth Edition (DSM IV) is not selected, the Add Common Assessment template for Behavioral Health displays an updated grid and list (replacing the required, DSM IV, Axes lists). The Status list is not required. Users can cancel out of the list without making a selection. The list includes the following selections: Mild Moderate Severe Persistent Extreme The grid in the DSM-5 section includes the following headers: # Dx (Code) Status Severity Impression/Differential Dx Specifier The system is packaged with existing, common assessment, diagnosis code data formatted to appear on the Common Assessment template. If no data is preloaded for a common assessment set in the package, launching that common assessment page returns the following messag

Practice Configuration Options for Behavioral Health

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Edit Custom Behavioral Health Picklists

Behavioral Health Configuration Options

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DSM Options for Behavioral Health Documents

Behavioral Health Common Assessment Page

Practice Configuration Options for Behavioral Health

Edit Custom Behavioral Health Picklists

Behavioral Health Configuration Options

DSM IV Configuration

Optimize Usage of Behavioral Health Templates

DSM Options for Behavioral Health Documents

Behavioral Health Common Assessment Page