Evaluations or Screenings

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

Document Speech Testing and Other Treatments

You can document and bill for treatments specific to speech and language, devices, and audiology. You can document individual and group treatment. On the Speech Single Visit template, expand the Objective panel. Under Treatment, select Testing/Other Tx. The Speech Treatment template opens with sections for Speech/Language, Device, and Audiology. Treatment options in the Speech Treatment template For one-on-one treatment, select the appropriate Ind checkbox, and then document the time in Individual Minutes along with any details. For group treatment, select the appropriate Grp checkbox, and then document the Grp Size and the Grp Time. The Grp Size and Grp Time fields appear next to the total time fields only if an item is marked as being done in a group. Group Info fields To bill for remote therapeutic monitoring, select the appropriate options in the RTM Codes section, enter the minutes, and then document the RTM details in the Comments field. Parent topic: Treatment Section

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

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

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

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

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

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

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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Document Speech Testing and Other Treatments

Document Patient Education for Speech Therapy

Document Remote Therapeutic Monitoring

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Visit Time

Document Speech Testing and Other Treatments

Document Patient Education for Speech Therapy

Document Remote Therapeutic Monitoring

Treatment Section

Treatment Section

Visit Time