Document Speech Testing and Other Treatments

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

Document Remote Therapeutic Monitoring

Document the details about remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM) so that you can bill for it. On the Single Visit or Speech Single Visit template, expand the Objective panel. Under Treatment, select RTM Codes. The NTS RTM Codes template opens. RTM Codes template Select the appropriate options under RTM Codes, enter the minutes, and then document the RTM details in the Comments field. Parent topic: Objective Panel Parent topic: Treatment Section

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Document Patient Education for Speech Therapy

Open a patient record, and then in Encounter History, expand a case and select an encounter. Open the NTS Homepage template associated with the encounter, and then select an SLP visit type. Open the NTS Speech Single Visit template, and then expand the Objective panel. Under Treatment, select Education. The Speech Education template opens. Under Education, select a field to open a list of education descriptions, and then do one of the following: Select a description from the list to insert it into the field. Select Free Text to return to the field, and then enter a custom description of the education provided. Optional: Repeat the previous step to document additional patient education. In Patient and/or Caregiver Education, enter additional information related to the patient education or caregiver training. This information appears on the Plan of Care and Office Visit documents. Select Save & Close. The SLP Education row is added to the Treatment grid in the Objective panel. Parent top

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Document Caregiver Education for Speech Therapy

You can document the speech therapy training the patient's caregiver receives in the patient's absence. The patient or representative must have given consent for this training. The caregiver training information appears on the Office Visit document. Open a patient record, and then in Encounter History, expand a case and select an encounter. Open the NTS Homepage template associated with the encounter, and then select an SLP visit type. Open the NTS Speech Single Visit template, and then expand the Objective panel. Under Treatment, select Education. The Education template opens in the Speech Education window. Select Patient consented to caregiver training. Select the appropriate checkbox that describes whether the caregiver training is for an individual or a group. For individual caregiver training, enter the total minutes of training time in Min, and then enter any therapist assistant-led training time in Asst. Asst appears only if the administrator configured the therapist assistant t

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Evaluations or Screenings

Open this template to document billable exams with specifics in Diagnostic, Speech/Language, Device, Developmental, and Audiology data. Items that with a checkbox are selected if completed with time documented and any details. If the checkbox beside an item is solid gray, you must enter time in the Minutes field next to the item. NTS Sp Treatment Eval template for evaluations and screenings Parent topic: Treatment Section

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Treatment Section

Use the Treatment section to capture all billable codes for Speech Therapy. Grid in Treatment section Evaluations or Screenings Document Speech Testing and Other Treatments Document speech-related treatments on the Speech Single Visit template. Document Patient Education for Speech Therapy For speech therapy visit types, you can document the education the patient receives. Document Caregiver Education for Speech Therapy For speech therapy visit types, you can document the training a patient's caregiver receives. Document Remote Therapeutic Monitoring Parent topic: Speech Objective Panel

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Visit Time

You can document the visit time for patients using one of the following methods based on your practice configuration done in the Single Visit section on the Practice Config practice template. If the application is configured to use the start and end timestamps to calculate total time for the patient visit, a Start Time button and field appear at the top of the Single Visit template, and Start Time and End time buttons and fields appear at the bottom of the template. Start Time and End Time fields on the Single Visit template If the application is configured to use manually entered total time, the Total Active Visit Time field appears at the bottom of the template. Note: If you change the minutes in Total Active Visit Time on the Single Visit template, you must reopen Fee Sheet to ensure correct calculations and documentation for the encounter. If turned on, you can enter the evaluation or re-evaluation time in the Eval/Re-Eval field. The time entered in Eval/Re-Eval is not added to the

Document Speech Testing and Other Treatments

Recommendations

Document Remote Therapeutic Monitoring

Document Patient Education for Speech Therapy

Document Caregiver Education for Speech Therapy

Evaluations or Screenings

Treatment Section

Visit Time

Document Remote Therapeutic Monitoring

Document Patient Education for Speech Therapy

Document Caregiver Education for Speech Therapy

Evaluations or Screenings

Treatment Section

Visit Time