Orders/Plans

The Orders/Plans section enables you to configure the following:

• Medical Necessity - If you select the Enable Medical Necessity check box, the medical necessity verification process turns on. During the process, the medical necessity check is activated, and the fields required to use the medical necessity feature while placing the orders also appear. The medical necessity fields appear on the My Plan, My Custom Plan, Labs, Diagnostic, and Office Procedures templates.
  Note: The Medical Necessity application must be licensed and installed to perform the medical necessity check in run time. The Medical Necessity application is useful to determine if procedures will be covered as medically necessary.
  

• MRI/MRA Questions Required - If you select the MRI Questions Required check box, the provider must complete the section at the top of the MRI/MRA template before an order is placed for a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) or Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA).
• My Plan - If you select the Launch My Custom Plan (ord_my_custom_plan) check box, the new My Custom Plan template opens when you click the My Plan sub-navigation link, Orders/Plan from the navigation bar, or any My Plan link found throughout the Framework templates.

  Also, on selecting the Launch My Custom Plan (ord_my_custom_plan) check box, the Bypass Order Module Processing check box auto-selects on the My Custom Plan Setup template.

  For more information on the Bypass Order Module Processing feature, go to NextGen Healthcare Success Community and download the latest My Plan Template Set User Guide for NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine.

• My Plan/Order processing - If a lab or radiology interface is used with the Orders module, the Process and Submit Lab/Radiology Orders template opens when an order is placed.
  • The process option opens the Process and Submit Lab/Radiology Orders template automatically when Place Order is clicked.
  • The task option opens a template to send a task to another user.
  • The ask option provides choices for how to use the template to display.
  • The ignore/close option closes the template. This option is selected when the practice does not have an interface or if Process and Submit Lab/Radiology Orders template is not used for interface orders.
• Order Edit Timeframe - If you click the field of the Order Edit Timeframe setting, a window opens to enter a value to set the number of days a user can edit an order after it is created.
  

• Ortho Orders - If you select the Show orders on orthopedics documents check box, the Orthopedic plan orders display in a grid format on the Master document, Intake Note, Post Op note, and Consult and Referral letters.
• Quest/Labcorp PSC - If you select the Hold Enable Quest/Labcorp PSC Hold check box, the order status is set to Hold when the provider/nurse selects Quest or Labcorp as the vendor in the Process and Submit Lab/Radiology Orders template. This is only necessary if an interface with these vendors is being used for the lab orders.
• Save to Module/Don't Send to Interface - If you select the Enable Save to Module/Don't Send to Interface check box, the orders are processed from the Process and Submit Lab/Radiology Orders template. However, the orders are not sent to the vendor across the interface.
• Orders console - If you select the Enable Orders Console check box, the system allows the order entry from the Orders module. The Order Console template opens instead of the Lab Master template when you click the Lab link on the left pane of the Assessment/Plan panel.
• Office diagnostics - If you select the Disable auto submit check box, the Submit to Superbill check box on the Office Services template does not auto-select after you click Place Order. You need to select the Submit to Superbill check box before you click Place Order to submit the codes to Superbill.
• Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) –If you select the Enable Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) Rules check box, an advanced radiology order that meets the criteria initiates related functionality and records data collected on the ACR score wizard in the My Custom Plan or Diagnostic Studies templates. For more information on AUC, go to NextGen Healthcare Success Community and download the latest My Plan Template Set User Guide for NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine and refer to the Validate Use Criteria on an Advanced Imaging Order section.
• Patient Medication Quantity - You can set a default numeric value (quantity) for a patient's medication orders that must appear on the templates where the medication quantity is not specified.

• Multiple Diagnoses Order Types - When you click the Configure Order Types link, the Configure Order Types for Multiple DXs window appears where you can select the required order types that you want to associate with multiple diagnoses. Based on the order types selected, the Associate Diagnoses link appears in the All Order Management template. When you click the Associate Diagnoses link, the Associate Multiple Diagnoses to Orders template opens, where you can add or update additional diagnoses for the placed orders.

  For more information about associating multiple diagnoses to orders, go to NextGen Healthcare Success Community and download the latest Getting Started User Guide for NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine.