You can place referral orders for other specialties, providers, therapies, and durable medical equipment.
- Open the Home or any other applicable template, select Orders from the upper navigation bar, and then select Referral Order.
The Referral Order template opens.
- To add diagnoses and procedures for the order, select Dx & Px.
Note: Selecting procedures is optional; however, you must select at least one diagnosis to order referrals.
- Optional: To indicate that the referral is internal, select Internal referral.
- Select the date of injury and insurance name.
Note: By default, the encounter date appears in Date. You can change the date, if needed. The policy number is automatically filled based on the selected insurance name.
- In the To section, do one of the following to select the recipient:
- To add a referral for a specialty or provider, select Specialty/specialist name/site, and then select the specialty, provider name, and reason.
- To add a referral for therapy, select Therapies/Rehabilitation, and then select the therapy type and reason.
- Select the services requested and time frame for referral.
- Optional: To assign a task to a user or workgroup, select Task
.
- In Clinical information/Comments, enter any additional information.
- To add attachments, select Details from the Attachments section.
- Select Place Order.
- Optional: To edit or share a referral order, select it from the Referrals ordered grid, and then select Edit or Share.
Note: For information on editing or sharing a referral order, go to
NextGen Healthcare Success Community, and download the
Getting Started User Guide forNextGen®Adaptive Content Engine.