FEATURES AND BENEFITS OF NEXTSTEP©

FEATURE

FUNCTION

BENEFIT

Treatment Planning Wizard

Directs clinical staff through creating a personalized treatment plan.

Streamlines management planning and results in plans consistent with the treatment program.

Plan Review Wizard

Leads clinical staff in the review of plans and in automatically creating a new plan.

Ensures consistency in evaluating goals, and quickly generates a new plan based on progress.

Daily Care Log

Provides individualized daily care requirements and prompts staff to verify that they have been completed, including valuable clinical information, such as independence and acuity.

Collects information for per diem billing, staff services that have been provided, time spent, level of assistance, client independence, and acuity: valuable information for client progress, compliance, and staffing.

Medication Review Wizard

Guides physicians through a medication review on a single document without having to navigate back-and-forth between pages.

Assures expeditious medication reviews, using valuable chart notes from clinical staff on goals relevant to targeting symptoms, managing medications, and automatically migrates symptoms to the treatment plan. 

Integrated Genelex RX

Determines drug interaction risks.

Uses APA drug interaction knowledge to color- code medications and quickly identify possible risks with prescriptions. 

e-MARS

Coordinates medication passing and allows staff to verify medication passes and record exceptions according to regulation.

Reduces or eliminates medication errors, ensures complete records, streamlines medication passing.

Group Notes

Allows staff to chart and bill for multiple clients at one time.

Without having to go to many individual charts, staff can chart both a common summary and individualized note on multiple clients in a group, and bill quickly in one step.

Evidence-based Dashboard

Provides one-click access to graphical evidence-based outcomes by consumer, provider, or diagnosis.

Empowers clinical staff with the ability to modify treatment services and plans according to actual real-time consumer progress, and improves the overall program using outcome data without any extra information entry.

Website Downlink

Allows a program to provide hyperlinks on a web site for new and existing clients to fill out forms.

Information from new clients is entered over the web into NextStep automatically, and clinicians are reminded to review, complete, and sign. Reduces staff time for new admits. Existing clients can fill out quarterly or monthly progress evaluations online.

Customizable forms using the Form Builder

Enables an organization to create its own forms without requiring any expensive technical assistance.

Allows for an organization’s providers to collaborate and develop specific clinical forms.

Form Filler

Automatically fills out state, county, federal, and any other predefined forms with information from assessments, face sheets, and other forms.

Eliminates having to fill out predefined forms in addition to regular workflow. These forms print out completed at the click of a button.

Scheduler

Schedules appointments for clients and groups, quickly and easily.

Tracks appointments, no shows, cancellations. Finds open appointments quickly. Bills directly from scheduling and ensures clinical documentation has been completed.

Quick Chart

Permits clinical staff to chart to the plan for goals and subjectively rates the consumer'’s progress for objectives, and bills from the documentation..

Allows for quick charting in a format that lets a supervisor easily review all charts for quality notes relevant to the consumers’ goals. Ensures proper documentation for billed services.

WORKFLOW FEATURES

Billing & Claims Management

Creates electronic and paper claims from services automatically using client insurance contract rules, including private pay, tracks accounts receivable, provides comprehensive billing reports.

Processes claims quickly without having to place modifiers on every claim, submits claims immediately following services and without any duplicate efforts, increases successful payment remittance, decreases rejections, automatically manage authorizations without manual matching.

Authorization Tracker

Tracks authorized services, services used, and services remaining.

Automatically reminds clinicians to request additional authorizations early-on, and coordinates requested authorizations with those that are confirmed for billing.

Facility Administration

Generates status overviews of important processes such as admissions, intake evaluations, and assessments.

Allows a supervisor to ensure that clinical tasks are being performed appropriately and in a timely manner.

Reminders

Produces an ongoing, automatic list of items that are due for completion or past due, with hyperlinks to navigate directly to those items.

Without setting any ‘alarms,’ an ‘automatic reminders’ list identifies important clinical tasks such as assessments and plan reviews.  For the item to depart the list, it must be completed.

Consumer Information

Stores a consumer’s identifying details including basic information, insurance carriers, and emergency information.

Offers fully documented records to facilitate claims processing and billing.

Form/Assessment Routing

Electronically routes forms to a series of colleagues for completing, reviewing, and signing documents.

Ensures that appropriate individuals are reminded to participate in completing and signing documents without paper or manually routing forms between colleagues.

Reports

Supplies standard reports and enables customized reporting via management select criteria.

Aids with analysis of business and clinical trends for informed decision-making and budget preparation.

e-Folders

Provides viewable and printable documents for all clinical paperwork.

Affords authorized staff to view, print, and create PDFs of clinical documents.

BILLING AND CLAIMS PROCESSING FEATURES

Client Insurance & Private Pay

Maintains client insurances and private pay including co-pays, deductibles, ability to pay, special rates, insurance screen amounts, authorizations, and insurance terms.

Maintains comprehensive client insurance information so that claims can be automatically generated through the billing engine without anybody having to create them.

Billing Engine

Conducts billing edit checks and processes claims and private pay invoices automatically for services that pass checks. Provides bill status codes only for services that need attention.

Creates claims automatically, manages authorizations, and identifies services that can not be billed so that a biller can give attention only to those services that require intervention.

Electronic and Paper Claims

Creates and submits claims on required forms or using EDI 837 electronic formats. Receives payment information using EDI 835 files.

Reduces the time between service and payment, reduces the time it takes to prepare claims, and posts payments against large volumes of claims in minutes.

Advanced Reporting

Obtains reports with financial information, receivables, insurances, and accounts.

Retrieves valuable financial information including A/R, authorization statuses, deposit sheets, services, payments, clients, and payors.