Document Medical Necessity

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Document Medical Necessity

Select the Clinical Impressions button. The Medicare Clinical Impressions template opens. Note: If this is a returning patient, you can use Get Data to fill in this template. For more information, see Use Get Data. AINF SLP Med Clncl Impr template for Medicare Clinical Impressions entry Select all checkboxes that apply. The top three checkboxes provide leading sentences for the documentation. Select Save & Close. Your selections in the Medicare Clinical Impressions template are concatenated in the Medical Necessity field. Parent topic: Medical Necessity

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Past History

You can enter Past History information by selecting any of the links in the left navigation for Function, Nutrition, Pediatric, Lymph/Oncology, Cognition, and Fluency. Past History grid When you have opened any Past History template, you can use the left navigation to jump to another template. Note: To fill in these templates more efficiently, you can use Get Data to pull information from prior visits, or QuickPicks to enter saved favorites. See Use Get Data and QuickPicks for more information. After you have entered all information on a template, select Save & Close. All information is stored in the Past History grid. Document and Review Patient Pain for a Speech Therapy Visit You can document a patient's pain levels and review their pain progression for a speech visit. Parent topic: Speech Subjective Panel

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Procedures or Results

The Procedures/Results section grid displays any procedures and results that have been documented for the patient on procedure templates. Procedures/Results grid To document procedures and results, select a template in the left navigation to open it. Note: You can configure the left side navigation to show only templates that are used by your practice or the provider and display them in the order most useful to you. For more information, go to NextGen Healthcare Success Community, and download the latest Configuration Guide for NextGen® Therapy Suite. All Procedures/Results templates also have functionality for Use Get Data and QuickPicks and you can fill out as many different templates as needed for that patient. Hearing Eval Template Hearing Aid Device Fitting/Repair Hearing Device Repair Parent topic: Audiology Objective Panel

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Work Conditioning Template

The Work Conditioning template is for Workman’s Compensation patients billing the codes 97545 and 97546. To document on the Work Conditioning template, you can use Get Data to pull information from prior visits, or QuickPicks to enter saved favorites. See Use Get Data and QuickPicks. Work Conditioning template Parent topic: Objective Panel

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Grid-Edit Mode

Use Grid-Edit mode for adding entries into the treatment grids and for making changes to multiple rows in a grid at once. Grid-Edit mode is the default mode when the template is initially opened. In Grid-Edit mode, the window displays Grid-Edit Mode. Grid-Edit Mode for a treatment grid In Grid-Edit mode, you can: Enter items into treatment grids by typing, selecting from picklists, using a QuickPick or Get Data. See Use Get Data and QuickPicks. Mark items in any grid as D (done or completed today in the facility), Grp (Group Therapy), or part of a HEP (Home Exercise Program). Edit the Side (S), Reps, Sets and Resist(ance) for multiple items in the grid at one time. Parent topic: Treatment Template Editing Modes

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MCR Clinical Impression

Determine if the financial category selected will be able to require/view/hide the Medicare Clinical Impression that is shown on Single Visit as Medical Necessity. This field is required on Medicare patients with an Eval or Progress Visit. Required and on an eval visit type or checked the re-eval charge checkbox, the med necessity field is red. The label will be red on visits that this is required on, and it is a hard stop on Fee Sheet. If the financial class is set to Required, the therapist will not be able to submit charges on an eval or progress visit type without completing documentation in the Medical Necessity field. Not Required – Show makes the field visible on Single Visit on an Eval or Progress visit type, but it will not be a hard stop on Fee Sheet if they choose to not fill it out. Not Required – Hide hides the field so it is not viewable to users. No POC on Re-eval: If you have any payers that do not require a POC to be sent with a Re-eval, you can use this setting to tur

Document Medical Necessity

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Document Medical Necessity

Past History

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Work Conditioning Template

Grid-Edit Mode

MCR Clinical Impression

Document Medical Necessity

Document Medical Necessity

Past History

Procedures or Results

Work Conditioning Template

Grid-Edit Mode

MCR Clinical Impression