Feature Highlight: Plan of Care Tracking

For this first installment of our TheraPlan Feature Highlight series, we are diving into plans of care and care tracking! As a therapist, you no doubt understand what a plan of care is, but do you know why it’s so important?   The reasons are twofold: you need a current plan of care to keep a patient on your schedule, and to ensure that you will get paid for the dates of service on which you treat them. Staying on top of plans of care is essential for avoiding any gaps in regular appointments. If you’re not authorized to see a patient due to an expired plan of care, you will lose revenue and, more importantly, your patient will temporarily lose the opportunity to receive regular treatments. In developing TheraPlan, we built in plan of care tracking because we wanted to ease the communication between therapists and a clinic admin team. That can easily be done if an EMR keeps track of when plans of care will expire, removing the need for manual plan of care tracking. When you create an evaluation, you’ll enter your plan of care dates and a summary of treatment plan.   Entering these dates lessens your workload as the therapist by ensuring that the goals you enter for this patient will carry forward to any treatment you complete within this date range. It’s also helpful to your admin team or billers because they don’t need to do any research to figure out when a new plan of care is required. It’s a win-win!   Discover more about TheraPlan’s built-in efficiencies here, and follow us on Facebook to get regular updates on this blog series and others!