Setting Up Treatment Classes

Use the configuration utility to modify and add treatment classes for your practice. Treatment classes are a way of sorting your ADA codes and your appointment types into groups for purposes of reporting, scheduling, and treatment plan management.

PracticeWorks comes with treatment classes already set up, but they are included as examples only. You can use them as they are, or modify them to suit your needs.

The ADA has broken treatment codes down into the following categories:

Diagnostic
Preventive
Restorative
Endodontic
Periodontics
Prosthodontics
Implants
Oral Surgery
Orthodontics
General Services

You might want different codes in your practice. PracticeWorks enables you to set up your own categories, or classes.

Whenever you schedule an appointment, determine the associated treatment class for the appointment. Some examples of treatment classes you can use for scheduling purposes are: Filling, Crown prep, Bridge prep, Root canal, Crown/bridge delivery, New patient, Recall, Impression, Try-in, Surgical extraction, Non-surgical extraction, and so on.

You can select specific treatment classes to limit the kinds of appointments to search for when filling an opening in your appointment book. The system can search for both

Sooner if possible appointments and Pending page appointments.

You can also lump procedures together by a few general descriptions of the kinds of appointments you do, such as: High Production, No Charge, or Fillers.