Entering Time for Treatments

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

Skill and To Gain

Below each grid on the NTS Treatment template you may see the Skill and To Gain fields. These may be configured to be hidden, optional, or required, based on the patient’s insurance (financial class/payer). Note: For information on configuring sub-navigation links, go to NextGen Healthcare Success Community, and download the latest Configuration Guide for NextGen® Therapy Suite. Use the Skill fields to enter the skills that the therapist used to assist the patient in the therapy on this encounter, and the To Gain fields to enter justifications (intent) for each therapy that was completed with the patient on this encounter. For either of these types of fields, you can select multiple picklist entries and enter text. The entries in the fields are incorporated into statements on the Office Note. Add Entries to a Skill or To Gain Field Parent topic: Treatment Section

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

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

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

Enter Time and Comments for Aquatherapy

Enter any time that a therapist or assistant spent one-on-one with the patient in the Individual field. Enter 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 therapy for any portion of the time, indicate that in the Asst Time or Group Asst Time field, as applicable. Note: The checkbox near the Asst Time or Group Asst Time gets selected if the assistant time is more than the configured % of the total time. Enter any comments about the therapy in the Comments field. Parent topic: Aquatherapy Template

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

Add Treatment Plan Details for PT/OT and Speech Visits

In the NTS Single Visit or NTS Speech Single Visit template, expand the Plan panel, and then go to the Treatment Plan section. If this is the first visit in this case, the Treatment grid will be empty. Afterwards, when you open this template, all entries in the grid copy forward from the prior visit. Select a category of treatment activities by doing one of the following: To enter general treatment activities, select Default. To enter treatment activities specific to a specialty, select a specialty category. Note: Administrators can configure categories and associated picklists in the NTS Picklist Manager practice template. Select the Treatment field. A picklist of treatment items opens. Do one of the following to add all treatment activities you plan to use to rehabilitate the patient: Select the items from the picklist, and then select Close or Done. As you select each item, it automatically appears the Treatment grid. To enter a treatment that is not listed in the picklist, select t

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

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

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

Time and Units Fields

The Time column displays the amount of Individual/Billable time documented for the CPT code if applicable. Calc Units displays the total number of allowable units that could be billed based on AMA coding guidelines. Billed Units displays the total number of units allowed based on the configuration settings for the payer attached to the case. Charges grid The Total fields display a total calculation of Time, Calc Units, and Billed Units for all CPT codes within the Charges grid. Total Active Visit Time displays the total time the patient was in the facility (see the Visit Time section in the Single Visit chapter.). The Allowed field shows the number of units that will be billed on today’s encounter. If a code displays as Not Billed, that means the system will not send that CPT to NextGen® Enterprise PM. This could be due to the following: The code is prevented for that payer or for all payers. The code does not have enough time documented based on configuration for that code. The code w

Entering Time for Treatments

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Skill and To Gain

Treatment Section

Enter Time and Comments for Aquatherapy

Add Treatment Plan Details for PT/OT and Speech Visits

Visit Time

Time and Units Fields

Skill and To Gain

Treatment Section

Enter Time and Comments for Aquatherapy

Add Treatment Plan Details for PT/OT and Speech Visits

Visit Time

Time and Units Fields