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Configure Ophthalmic Tests for the Order Module Using SIM Codes

Before you begin

You must have a Service Item Maintenance (SIM) code to complete this task. For more information on creating or editing SIM codes, go to NextGen Healthcare Success Community and download the File Maintenance Libraries User Guide for NextGen® Enterprise.
You can send ophthalmic tests to the orders module using SIM codes. To use a Service Item Code for the *Billing/Test Code in the Oph diagnostic tests data set, you have to use a miscellaneous diagnostic test code for the NextGen Compendium Test Key. The following steps outline the process to configure SIM codes successfully. For more information about the orders module and the NextGen Compendium, go to NextGen Healthcare Success Community and download the Orders Module Setup Guide for NextGen® Enterprise. You have to configure the test in the following areas:
  • File Maintenance > Master Files > EHR > Order Tests
  • File Maintenance > Master Files > EHR > Order Components
  • File Maintenance > Master Files > EHR > Order Test NextGen Compendium
  • Oph diagnostic tests data set on the Data Sets Setup practice template
The Oph diagnostic tests data set manages records that control how ophthalmic diagnostic tests are processed.

  1. Add a test to the Order Tests master file in File Maintenance using the following information:
    • System- enter the Vendor Name from the corresponding data set record.
    • Key- enter the SIM code.
    • Description- enter the *Test type from the corresponding data set record.
    • Order Type- enter Radiology.
    • Code System- enter R.
    • Map the NextGen Compendium Test Key to a 'Misc Diag Test'.
      • Click the Description column and search for Misc Diag Test.
      • Select a miscellaneous diagnostic test that your practice does not use.
      • Write the corresponding compendium code down.
    • Map the CPT4 Codes to the *Billing/Test code.
    • Map the SIM Code to the SIM code.
  2. Create a record for the SIM code in Test Components in File Maintenance using the following information:
    • System ID- enter the Vendor Name from the corresponding data set record.
    • Key- enter the SIM code.
    • Code System- enter R.
  3. In Order NextGen Test Compendium, search for the NextGen Compendium Test Key, using the Misc Diag Test code in Step 2 and update the following information:
    • NextGen Test Description- enter the *Test type from the corresponding data set record.
    • User Description- enter the *Test type from the corresponding data set record.
    • Click the yellow folder to map SIM code in the first grid.
  4. On the Data Sets Setup practice template, create or update an existing record in the oph diagnostics tests data set using the following information:
    • *Test type- enter the Description value in step one.
    • *Billing/Test code- enter the SIM code.
    • Order module code- enter the miscellaneous diagnostic test compendium code from step one.
    • Select the Send to module check box.
    • Vendor Name- enter the System value from step one.