Enter Time and Comments for Aquatherapy

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Enter Exercises

Select the Item field of the grid to enter an exercise. Select the Reps, Sets, and Resistance as appropriate. If the exercise was or should be performed in Shallow or Deep water, select the option to indicate that. If you are performing the treatment or exercise today, make sure that the D field has a checkmark. If the exercise is to be performed in a group, select the Grp group therapy checkbox. Selecting the Grp checkbox makes the billing code a group therapy code. If any exercises are done in group, you are prompted to document the total group time and the number of participants in the group. To indicate the treatment was or should be performed only on one side of the body, select a side under S. Select Add. The exercise is added to the grid. Parent topic: Aquatherapy Template

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Skill and To Gain

Select the Skill and To Gain fields to select reasons why the exercises were done. Parent topic: Aquatherapy Template

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Aquatherapy Template

To fill in the Aquatherapy template, you can use manual entry or a QuickPick. See QuickPicks. Aquatherapy template in the NTS Treatment Aqua window Enter Exercises Skill and To Gain Enter Time and Comments for Aquatherapy Print and Save Parent topic: Objective Panel

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Entering Time for Treatments

You can document the unattended and individual time spent with a patient for each applicable code using the fields below each grid on the NTS Treatment template. If an assistant led the therapy for any part of the time, you can indicate that in the Asst Time field. You can enter the time that a therapist spent with the patients in group therapy in the Group Time field and enter the size of the group in the Group Size field. If an assistant led the group therapy for any part of the time, you can indicate that in the Group Asst Time field. Note: The checkbox next to the Asst Time or Group Asst Time fields gets selected if the assistant time is more than the configured % of the total time. If PT/OT students treat the patient under the general supervision of the therapist, you can enter the time in the Total General Supervised Student Time field. The student time is added in the total time; however, it is not counted as billable time. Note: For the Total General Supervised Student Time fie

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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

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Treatment Section

The treatment grid shows therapies and education that you have documented for the patient. You can document therapies completed with the patient using any of the treatment templates in the left-hand list. The therapies documented on the templates are billable, with the exception of the Education template, which always shows a billable Total Time entry of zero. Treatment grid Treatment Template Editing Modes Treatment Template Enter Treatments/Activities for a Body Area Apply Option Settings to Multiple Grid Entries Update a Single Grid Entry Sort Order for Patient's Exercises You can sort the order of a patient's exercises during documentation on the NTS Treatment template. Delete Individual Treatments or Activities Clear the Entire Grid Allow Body Area Override Skill and To Gain Entering Time for Treatments You can enter the time for treatments below the respective grids. The application calculates the total time from the time entered in each grid of the template. Time and Done Alerts

Enter Time and Comments for Aquatherapy

Recommendations

Enter Exercises

Skill and To Gain

Aquatherapy Template

Entering Time for Treatments

Visit Time

Treatment Section

Enter Exercises

Skill and To Gain

Aquatherapy Template

Entering Time for Treatments

Visit Time

Treatment Section