Add Surgical Procedure Codes

NextGen® Orthopedic Suite Help 80.2.14.0

Add a Procedure on the Surgery Coding Template

To add a procedure, do one of the following: If using IMO, click the Procedure IT button to launch the IMO template. Click the Procedure Codes button below the Procedures grid to launch the IORTS Px Xpo template. Click on procedures to be billed in the grid. When you click on a procedure, it moves to the coding grid and a check mark appears next to it in the Procedures grid. Only the procedures with a check mark in the Procedures grid and that are in the coding grid can be submitted to Superbill or the patient’s histories. Procedures in the Diagnosis/Procedure Information panel To change the order of the procedures, select the procedure from the grid and use the up and down arrows to the right of the grid. Parent topic: Diagnosis/Procedure Information Panel

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Add Fracture Care Procedure Codes

You can add a procedure code to each Fx Care (Fracture 1, 2, 3) entry. You can use the IORTS Px Xpo Procedures template to add procedure codes (follow the instructions in the section Add a Surgical Procedure 29 ) or click Procedure IT if your practice uses IMO. The procedure codes that you add enter the Fracture fields in order from left to right (1-3). Fracture Care Procedure Codes in the Assessment and Plan panel Parent topic: Add New Diagnoses from the Common Assessment Template

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Add a Surgical Procedure

To open the IORTS Px Xpo template, do one of the following: Under the following grids, click Add: Orthopedic Surgical History grid on the Intake template Surgical History grid on the Intake template Procedures grid on the Surgery Coding template On templates where you are adding procedures to diagnoses/assessments (for example, the Single or Multi Fx template), click the Procedure Codes button. If the Procedure Page field is blank or you want to select a different value, click the Procedure Page field, and select a value from the list and click OK. IORTS Procedure Page window Select a procedure code. If picklists open, make any selections necessary to refine the procedure description: If the IORTS Side picklist opens, select the side or bilateral, or select the blank at the top of the picklist to continue without selecting the side. Select a surgeon from the Surgeon picklist. Enter the date of surgery. Click Cancel if you do not want to enter a surgery date at this time. Procedures gri

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Search for a Procedure Code

You can search for a procedure code to add it. On the IORTS Px Xpo template, click the Search button. The IORTS Px Search Pu template opens. Do one of the following: To search by code, type the code into the Code field. IORTS Procedure Search window To search by description, enter the description in the Description field. Note: When searching by description, if you check the Search anywhere check box, the list returns all procedure descriptions that have the typed character string anywhere in the name. Keyword search on the IORTS Procedure Search window The grid list is filtered as you type. For example, when you type “25” in the Code field, the list displays all codes that begin with “25”. Select the procedure and click OK to return to the IORTS Px Xpo template. Parent topic: Add a Surgical Procedure

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Add an Unlisted Procedure Code

You can add an unlisted procedure code from the IORTS Px Xpo template. This will be a generic code by body part or scope for a procedure for which there is no specific procedure code. CAUTION: To avoid mis-coding, before you use this functionality, run a description search for the body part, with the Search Anywhere button selected, and scroll through the results, to be certain there is no existing code for the procedure. Unlisted Procedure section on the IORTS Px Xpo template In the Unlisted Procedure section, click the Code field. A picklist opens for you to choose the generic code by body part, or scope. Select the code from the list. Select unlisted procedures This enters the code in the Code field and closes the picklist. Type a description in the Description field. Click Add. An alert appears asking you to confirm that no code exists for this procedure. Click Yes, if you are sure that there is no existing code for this procedure. The procedure is added, with the description you e

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Surgery Details of Patients

You can document the surgery diagnosis, procedure codes, and surgery details prior to scheduling the surgery for a patient. You can add diagnoses, surgery details, pre-operative and post-operative procedures, components, and procedure notes in the Surgery Information panel on the Surgery Sched template. The Diagnosis, Procedure, and Surgeon fields are mandatory. Surgery Information panel on the Surgery Scheduling template If the patient has a guardian, you can enter the contact details of the guardian. You can also indicate the following details of the surgery. If the surgery is urgent If the patient needs to call to schedule the surgery If the patient is a minor If the patient has a guardian Add Surgery Diagnoses You can add the surgery diagnoses applicable to the surgery order. Add Surgical Procedure Codes Enter Surgery Details Prior to scheduling a surgery, you can enter the details of the surgery such as surgeon, assistant, anesthesiologist, anesthetics, admit type, patient positio

Add Surgical Procedure Codes

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Add a Procedure on the Surgery Coding Template

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Add a Procedure on the Surgery Coding Template

Add Fracture Care Procedure Codes

Add a Surgical Procedure

Search for a Procedure Code

Add an Unlisted Procedure Code

Surgery Details of Patients