When a recommended treatment has been finished, you can set the procedure complete in the Ledger-Treatment Plan view of Ledger. A completed procedure does not appear in the Ledger-Treatment Plan view of Ledger but does appear in Ledger with the correct charge and insurance coverage information (including any pre-authorizations received).
To set treatment-planned procedures complete
With a patient selected in Ledger, switch to the Ledger-Treatment Plan view.
If the completing provider override feature is enabled, and the completing provider is different from the provider who treatment-planned the procedures you are going to set complete, on the File menu, click Change Provider to select the overriding provider.
Select the treatment-planned procedures that you want to complete.
Note: To select multiple procedures, click a procedure, and then, while pressing the Ctrl key, click the other desired procedures.
On the Transaction menu, click Set Procedures Complete. (If the patient has been archived, this option is not available.)
If applicable, do one of the following:
If the Password - Completed Procedure, Enter dialog box appears, user verification has been assigned to the "Completed Procedure, Enter" task. Do one of the following:
If your user account has been granted the "Completed Procedure, Enter" security right, enter your credentials in the User ID and Password boxes, and then click OK.
If your user account has not been granted the "Completed Procedure, Enter" security right, have a user with permission temporarily override this restriction so you can post procedures this one time. The overriding user enters his or her credentials in the User ID and Password boxes and then clicks OK.
If a message appears, informing you that you do not have rights to this operation, your user account has not been granted the "Completed Procedure, Enter" security right. To have a user with permission temporarily override this restriction so you can post procedures this one time, do the following:
On the message, click Yes.
In the Password - Completed Procedure, Enter dialog box, the overriding user enters his or her credentials in the User ID and Password boxes and then clicks OK.
If the procedure has been set up to be for an implantable device and does not already have a device attached to it, the New Patient Medical Alert(s) dialog box appears. Set up the options to attach the device to the procedure.
Do the following:
To add the UDI (if known), next to the UDI box, click Add UDI to search for the implantable device in the public, online Global Unique Device Identification Database (GUDID), which is maintained by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Note: You do not change any of the other options in the Edit Patient Implantable Device dialog box that are already populated with data from the GUDID if the device is found.
In the Description box, leave the default description, or enter a brief description of the device as you want it to appear in the Medical Alerts window.
Set up any other options (if known) as needed. The following options are available:
Discovery Date - Enter the date that you found out about the device. By default, the current date is entered.
Area - Enter the area where the device is implanted.
GMDN PT Name - If known, enter the Global Medical Device Nomenclature (GMDN) Preferred Term (PT) name of the device.
Lot/Batch - If known, enter the lot or batch number of the device.
Serial # - If known, enter the serial number of the device.
Distinct ID - If known, enter the catalog reference number of the device.
Expiration Date - If known, enter the expiration date of the device.
Manufacturing Date - If known, enter the date that the device was made.
Device Attributes:
Brand - If known, enter the brand name of the device.
Version/Model # - If known, enter the version or model number of the device.
Company - If known, enter the name of the company who made the device.
MRI Safety Status - If known, enter the safety rating of the device for use in or near a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) environment.
Labeled as containing NRL - If known, select or clear the checkbox to indicate if the device is labeled as containing natural rubber latex (NRL).
Notes - Enter any notes regarding the implantable device.
To check the spelling of the note, click the Check Spelling button . This button is available only if a certain preference setting has been enabled.
Click OK to attach the device to the procedure.
To return to Ledger, on the Options menu, click Ledger.