Presenting Tx Plans to a Patient for Acceptance

Before PracticeWorks can utilize the treatment plan for scheduling appointments, the patient must accept the plan. This is the patient’s agreement to proceed with a defined set of procedures toward a specific outcome. Several other functions within the system depend on the information residing in an accepted treatment plan.

You can print the treatment plan for the patient, or you can show the patient the plan on your computer screen. You can also present more than one treatment plan and let the patient choose. There can be several plans for one patient, but only one at a time can be accepted and active.

There are four ways to indicate that the patient accepts a plan:

Related Topics

Removing an Accepted Treatment Plan

Implementing Treatment Plans

Submitting Procedures for Pre-Determination