Entering Frequency when Medicare is the Payer

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Frequency and Duration

You can enter the frequency and duration of treatment. Frequency indicates how often the patient will be treated. The total duration of treatment is pulled from the longest goal. In the example below, the expectation is for the patient to be seen with a frequency of 2 times per week for a duration of 4 weeks. Examples of frequency and duration entries If you are submitting a POC to an ordering provider who often rejects longer proposed durations, you can change the duration by selecting the duration text field (after “for”), and then selecting a shorter duration. By making this change, the overall duration of the goals entered does not change; only the total duration of the POC changes. When the POC expires, an alert notifies you to update your goals to generate a new POC. Other Checkbox - PRN Document that you choose to see the patient on a PRN basis or generate a plan of care good for only today’s visit Entering Frequency when Medicare is the Payer About the long-term goal alerts tha

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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

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Viewing a Summary of Patient and Case Details

While working with a patient in any Single Visit template, you can quickly reference case and patient details gathered from the NTS Homepage and NTS Surgery templates. You view these details in the Case Details side panel that appears any time you are on a Single Visit template. From the side panel, you can do the following: Review alerts and precautions. The Alerts button appears if any of the Yes options are selected on the NTS Homepage template. A yellow icon appears next to Precautions when precaution information exists. Open the Rapid Flowsheet Worklog template. Review information about surgeries, insurance, and precertifications. Review dates of onset, next appointment, start of care, progress visits, and the active script and POC periods. An icon next to the following fields indicates the item may need attention or followup: Last Progress Visit and Due in - If there are less than three visits remaining until the next progress visit is due, a yellow exclamation icon appears next

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Single Visit

You can configure the following settings for Single Visit template in the Single Visit section of the NTS Practice Config practice template. Visit time calculation Enable or disable Eval or Re-Eval field Focus on Therapeutic Outcome (FOTO) integration Enable or disable Physiotec link Enable or disable MedBridge HEP link Pain location Summary of Care for Discharge Visits Single Visit section of the Practice Config template Total Visit Time Calculation Display or Hide the Eval/Re-Eval Field on the NTS Single Visit Template You can make the Eval/Re-Eval field appear on the Single Visit template from the Single Visit section on the NTS Practice Config practice template. FOTO Integration Physiotec HEP Enable or Disable MedBridge HEP You can configure whether the MedBridge HEP link appears for your practice in the Single Visit section of the NTS Practice Config practice template. Require Summary of Care for Discharge Visits You can require users to add a summary of care by Visit Sets. Parent

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Configure Time Based Alert for Eval and Re-Eval Visits

You can configure the alert to notify the therapists that they have not documented enough time for the evaluation or re-evaluation portion of the visit as per the practice standards. On the NTS Practice Config practice template, go to the Fee Sheet section. Eval and Re-Eval Time Difference settings in the Fee Sheet section of the Practice Config template For Eval and Re-Eval Time Difference settings, do the following: In the field below the Visit Set column of the grid, select the therapy type. Select Eval or Re-Eval. In the field below Minutes column of the grid, enter the desired minimum time difference between Total Active Visit Time and Treatment time. Select one of the following for alert type: Alert Only. Select this option, if you want to configure the alert that enables the user to submit charges without changing the documented times. Hard Stop. Select this option, if you want to configure the alert that forces the user to update the documented times to meet the minimum differe

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Indicate the Treatment Plan Changed and Generate a New POC

When you change a PT/OT or speech treatment plan after the plan of care (POC) has been established, a new POC must be generated. In the NTS Single Visit or NTS Speech Single Visit template, expand the Plan panel, and then go to the Treatment Plan section. Update the activities in the treatment plan grid. If the POC was established before your changes, the Treatment Plan Changed. A New POC is Needed checkbox appears below the Treatment grid. (The checkbox does not appear when there are no changes). Treatment Plan Changed. A New POC is Needed checkbox Select the Treatment Plan Changed. A New POC is Needed. The system generates a new POC to be tracked. The text on the POC document lets the physician know what information has changed. Parent topic: Treatment Plan Section Parent topic: Treatment Plan

Entering Frequency when Medicare is the Payer

Recommendations

Frequency and Duration

MCR Clinical Impression

Viewing a Summary of Patient and Case Details

Single Visit

Configure Time Based Alert for Eval and Re-Eval Visits

Indicate the Treatment Plan Changed and Generate a New POC

Frequency and Duration

MCR Clinical Impression

Viewing a Summary of Patient and Case Details

Single Visit

Configure Time Based Alert for Eval and Re-Eval Visits

Indicate the Treatment Plan Changed and Generate a New POC