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Document Details of Internal Equipment

You can document the order details for durable medical equipment (DME) your practice can dispense.

  1. Open the Home or any other applicable template, select Orders from the upper navigation bar, and then select Single Order.
  2. Expand the Internal DME panel.
  3. Select an item from the Orthotics and Prosthetics grid.
    The following fields are automatically filled:
    • Item
    • Charge
    • Deposit
    • Body Region
  4. Optional: Modify the charge.
  5. Enter the duration, brace adjustment values, and size of the equipment.
  6. If your practice is unable to dispense an equipment and a substitute is required, select the substitute equipment, and then select OK to Substitute.
  7. Select the appropriate side of the body.
  8. To enter the provider information for NextGen® Automated Document Sharing in the Patient Providers window, select the CC Provider 3 checkbox.
    The details of the provider from the Patient Providers window automatically appear in CC Provider 3.
  9. Optional: To assign a task to clinical staff, select Task O&P .
  10. Optional: To indicate that the patient received a list of orthotics providers and generate the acknowledgement document, select O&P List Received.
  11. Enter your comments and messages.