Treatment Section

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

Document Patient Education for Physical or Occupational 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 a PT or OT visit type. Open the NTS Single Visit template, and then expand the Objective panel. Under Treatment, select Education. The Education template opens in the NTS PT Treatment Edu window. For patient education, enter a description under Education of the education provided by doing one of the following: Select Body Mechanics, Gait, or ADL as the education type, and then select a description in each field. Note: If you select the blank space at the top of the list, you can type an entry into the field. To enter custom descriptions that is not related to an education type, make sure that none of the Body Mechanics, Gait, or ADL options are selected, and then enter your descriptions in the fields. Optional: To clear the description from a field, select X next to the field. In Patient and/or Caregiver Education, ty

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

Document Caregiver Education for Physical or Occupational Therapy

You can document the physical and occupational therapy training the patient's caregiver receives in the patient's absence. The patient or representative must have given consent for this training. The caregiver training information appears on the Office Visit document. 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 a PT or OT visit type. Open the NTS Single Visit template, and then expand the Objective panel. Under Treatment, select Education. The Education template opens in the NTS PT Treatment Edu window. Select Patient consented to caregiver training. Select the appropriate checkbox that describes whether the caregiver training is for an individual or a group. For individual caregiver training, enter the total minutes of training time in Min, and then enter any therapist assistant-led training time in Asst. Asst appears only if the administrator configured the t

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

Entering Time for Treatments

You can document the unattended and individual time spent with a patient for each applicable code using the fields below each grid on the NTS Treatment template. If an assistant led the therapy for any part of the time, you can indicate that in the Asst Time field. You can enter the 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 group therapy for any part of the time, you can indicate that in the Group Asst Time field. Note: The checkbox next to the Asst Time or Group Asst Time fields gets selected if the assistant time is more than the configured % of the total time. If PT/OT students treat the patient under the general supervision of the therapist, you can enter the time in the Total General Supervised Student Time field. The student time is added in the total time; however, it is not counted as billable time. Note: For the Total General Supervised Student Time fie

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

Treatment Template

Use the NTS Treatment template to record therapeutic activities. The template includes grids for the following billable codes: Therapeutic Exercise (97110) Therapeutic activity (97530) Neuro-muscular re-education (97112) Manual Therapy (97140) Gait-training Therapy (97116) NTS Treatment template Note: The positions of the grids for Therapeutic exercise (97110), Therapeutic activity (97530), and Neuro-muscular re-education (97112) may vary, based on how your organization has configured them. Body Area Parent topic: Treatment Section

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

Homepage Template

Open the NTS Homepage template as the starting point for all visits. On it, you can view key information such as scripts, authorizations, KX modifier, and the plan of care. The application tracks this information and, when you open the NTS Homepage template, alerts you if action is needed. NTS Homepage template Generate the Future Appointments Report Generate a report of the patient's upcoming appointments that you can give to the patient. Select a Visit Type for the Patient Encounter Select the visit type to determine the workflow of the patient encounter. Providers Return to Physician Acknowledge the Review of Past Medical History You can acknowledge that the provider has reviewed medical history details with the patient. View the Last Progress Note Date Information You can view the date of the last progress note and find out when the next one is due. Historian Canceled and No-show Appointments Start of Care (SOC) Visits Insurance Section Patient Contraindication Alerts Medicare Cert

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Document Patient Education for Physical or Occupational Therapy

Document Caregiver Education for Physical or Occupational Therapy

Entering Time for Treatments

Treatment Template

Add Treatment Plan Details for PT/OT and Speech Visits

Homepage Template

Treatment Section

Document Patient Education for Physical or Occupational Therapy

Document Caregiver Education for Physical or Occupational Therapy

Entering Time for Treatments

Treatment Template

Add Treatment Plan Details for PT/OT and Speech Visits

Homepage Template