You can add treatment to a patient in the Patient Chart using any of three methods. To add treatment using the Procedure Buttons panel, you must first assign a procedure code, multi-code, or condition to a procedure button.
To add treatment using procedure buttons
1. Select a patient.
2. If necessary, change the patient's provider.
3. From the Graphic Chart, click the tooth or teeth that require treatment.
4. Click the appropriate procedure button.
5. Click the appropriate status button in the Charting toolbar for the procedure you are entering:
· Existing Other - Existing work performed by a provider outside of your practice.
· Existing - Existing work performed by a provider within your practice.
· Treatment Plan - Recommended treatment for a patient.
· Completed - Completed work and conditions for a patient.
Notes:
· You can select the provider ID for the patient's primary and secondary providers from the Chart Provider ID list.
· You can clear a selected tooth from the Graphic Chart by clicking the Clear Selected Teeth button in the Charting toolbar.
· You can quickly assign several procedures the same status by clicking the Auto-State button in the Charting toolbar. After you click the Auto-State button, the next button you click remains selected until you click one of the other procedure status buttons.
· You can view the procedure code being posted from the Procedure Code list.
If the procedure you selected requires further treatment information, such as surfaces or quadrants, the Select Surface dialog box appears.
6. Select the appropriate treatment areas, and then click OK.
The procedure is added to the Graphic Chart if you are using a charting symbol in conjunction with the posted procedure and to the patient's Progress Notes. All completed and treatment-planned work is automatically posted in the Patient Chart to the Ledger, and the appropriate charges and estimates are added to the patient's account respectively. You can cross-code any procedures that you flagged for medical cross-coding at this time. For more information, see Processing medical insurance claims.
Note: If you post a treatment as separate procedures, any surfaces that are separated by a comma are posted as separate procedures.