Medical Necessity Field

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

Medical Necessity

The Medical Necessity field can be configured to be hidden, visible (not required), or required on Eval and Progress visit types for those financial classes/payers designated in the configuration in the System Config system template. If required, the field title is red until it contains an entry. Medical Necessity field Document Medical Necessity Parent topic: Speech Assessment Panel

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

Document Medical Necessity

Select Clinical Impressions. The Medicare Clinical Impressions template opens. Medicare Clinical Impressions template The top three checkboxes provide leading sentences for the documentation. Selecting No changes satisfies documentation if there has been no change in the medical necessity for treatment since the patient’s last visit. Note: To fill in the Medicare Clinical Impressions template, you can use Get Data to pull information from a prior visit. See Use Get Data Select all checkboxes that apply. Select Save & Close. Your selections in the Medicare Clinical Impressions template are converted to prose in the Medical Necessity field. Clinical impressions converted to full sentences in the Medical Necessity field Parent topic: Medical Necessity Field

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

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

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

Example

The following image shows settings where the default (*) is not to require the Skill and To Gain fields be filled out, unless the payer is in the Medicare financial class, in which case, the fields are required. Treatment Skill/Gain (Intent) set with defaults of to not required fields unless Medicare is the financial class Parent topic: Configure Skill and To Gain Fields

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

Document Medical Necessity

Select the Clinical Impressions button. The Medicare Clinical Impressions template opens. Note: If this is a returning patient, you can use Get Data to fill in this template. For more information, see Use Get Data. AINF SLP Med Clncl Impr template for Medicare Clinical Impressions entry Select all checkboxes that apply. The top three checkboxes provide leading sentences for the documentation. Select Save & Close. Your selections in the Medicare Clinical Impressions template are concatenated in the Medical Necessity field. Parent topic: Medical Necessity

NextGen® Enterprise EHR Template Editor Help 8

MR Edit Field Populate Actions

Alert Assign Field Value Assign Note Value Change Field Color Change Field Style Disable Control Enable Control Grid Row Select Hide Item Lookup External Id Medical Necessity Patient Education Region Highlight Send Email Set Default Values Show Item Stored Procedure System Password Toggle History Toggle Panel Toggle Sidebar Trigger Script Web Navigate Web XChange Parent topic: Medical Records (MR) Template Events and Actions

Medical Necessity Field

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Medical Necessity

Document Medical Necessity

MCR Clinical Impression

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Document Medical Necessity

MR Edit Field Populate Actions