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NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

Document a PT or OT Patient Screening

Before you begin Ensure that a patient encounter is created in NextGen® Enterprise PM and the patient is checked in. Document a PT or OT patient screening before you complete a patient evaluation. Open a patient record, and then in Encounter History, expand a case and select an encounter. Open the NTS Homepage template, and then in Visit Type, select Screening. Select the Screening tab to open the NTS Screening. In each panel, document the patient screening information, and then in the Clinical Impression/Plan panel, complete the signoff information. Document Subjective Information for a PT/OT Screening Document subjective information for a physical or occupational therapy screening. Screening Objective Panel Clinical Impression/Plan Panel Patient Follow-up Panel Parent topic: Using NextGen Therapy Suite

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

Add Surgery Information to the NTS Homepage Template

You can document the patient's past and upcoming surgeries and indicate whether they pertain to the injury you are treating. Open a patient record, and then in Encounter History, expand a case and select an encounter. Open the NTS Homepage template, and then select a visit type. Below the Surgery grid, select Add to open the NTS Surgery template. Select Surgery Description, and then do one of the following in the Surgeries list, do one of the following: Select a surgery name, and then select OK. Select the first blank line, select OK, and then enter a custom description. Enter the surgery date and CPT4 code. Select Add. In the confirmation message, do one of the following: If the surgery is related to today’s treatment, select Yes. The surgery information appears in both the Surgical History and Surgery Related to Therapy Episode grids. If the surgery date occurs after the patient completes treatment, the numbers in the Days and Weeks columns appear as negative numbers. If the surgery

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

View the Last Progress Note Date Information

Open a patient record, and then in Encounter History, expand a case and select an encounter. To view the encounter date of the previous evaluation or progress visit, open the NTS Homepage template for the patient, and then review the Last Progress Note date field. The Last Progress Note date field is updated when you submit charges on an encounter with the PT Progress visit type. To view the number of days and visits remaining until the next progress note is due, open a Single Visit template for the patient, expand the Case Details side panel, and then review the information in Last Progress Visit. The remaining time is calculated from the payer configuration in the Finclass and Payer Settings section of the NTS System Config template. For more information, go to NextGen Healthcare Success Community, and download Configuration Guide for NextGen® Therapy Suite. Parent topic: Homepage Template

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

Single Visit Subjective Panel

Use the Subjective panel on the NTS Single Visit template to document the patient’s history. The Subjective panel also gives you access to additional templates to document the patient’s limitations, work demands, and specialty subjective information. In the Job Title, Work Status, and Last Worked fields, you can document the patient’s workplace and work status information. Note: These fields share the same values from the Job Title, Work Status, and Last Worked fields on the NTS Homepage template. The Ordering Diagnosis grid pulls data entered on the NTS Homepage template. To update Ordering Diagnosis information, open the NTS Homepage template. The Surgery and Past Medical History grids display any history that was captured in a NextGen Healthcare application for the patient. You can edit past medical history and add family and social history. If precautions or contraindications were entered on the NTS Homepage template, they display in the Precautions/Contraindications field, where y

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 an External Script

These instructions are for the first time you enter information for an external script. Select Manage. The NTS Script window opens. NTS Script template displaying the ordering provider If this is Script 1, the referring provider’s name appears in the Ordering field, and the Address and Fax fields pull from the Providers Master File in File Maintenance, if this information is entered for the referring provider. You can edit these fields. If this is not script 1 (for example: script 2, 3, and so on), do the following: Select the number for the script in the Script # field. Select the Ordering field once to type in the name of the referring provider or click the field twice to select the provider from a picklist. Note: NextGen Healthcare recommends that you select the provider from the picklist. If the provider’s name was not in the picklist, type the address and fax for that provider Address and Fax fields. Select the For field and type in the body area or injury that the script is being

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Document a PT or OT Patient Screening

Add Surgery Information to the NTS Homepage Template

View the Last Progress Note Date Information

Single Visit Subjective Panel

Treatment Section

Enter an External Script

Homepage Template

Document a PT or OT Patient Screening

Add Surgery Information to the NTS Homepage Template

View the Last Progress Note Date Information

Single Visit Subjective Panel

Treatment Section

Enter an External Script