4 Practice Policies that Help Maintain Behavioral Health Practice Success
4 Practice Policies that Help Maintain Behavioral Health Practice Success
EHR Scheduling Features
Patient Self-scheduling
Patient-led availability search and appointment requests with assigned provider(s) through the MYIO portal.
New Patient Appointment Requests
Intake streamlined through an easy new patient appointment request tool linked from website to EHR.
Flexible Calendar Views
Expansive calendar displays filterable by provider and facility with options to save preferred views.
External Calendar Sync
Seamless 1-way sync to external calendars for comprehensive view of clinical and personal schedule.
Do-it-all Workflows from the Scheduler
Central location to accept payments, check in patients, start notes, and launch telehealth visits.
Multiple Time Zone Scheduling
Effortless scheduling across zones with unique facility, provider, and patient time zone settings.
Waitlist Management
Easy-to-use availability search tools, ability to add patients to a waitlist from the scheduler.
Efficient Group Scheduling
One-off and recurring group appointment scheduling for efficient administrative workflows.
EHR Scheduling Just Got Easier
Scheduling appointments, collecting payment, and staying on top of documentation have never been easier.
Valant’s Scheduler is more than a calendar. The Scheduler serves as a hub, allowing you to navigate to all your critical tasks with just the click of a mouse from any calendar appointment. For example:
- Accept a credit card payment
- View billing charges
- Open the patient chart
- Update or review patient demographics
- Assign outcome measures and deliver to your patient’s MYIO account
- Adjust appointment category, add-on codes, or modifiers
- Start or re-open your clinical documentation
- Initiate a telehealth session
Thoughtful appointment icons keep your entire practice informed and organized, allowing you to see documentation status, appointment notes, co-pay information and more. These at-a-glance visual cues reduce the potential for errors and miscommunication between front-office and back-office staff.
Reduce Double Entry
Gone are the days of manually creating a superbill for your clients or entering the same information in multiple places to submit a billing claim. Valant’s Scheduler houses all the information necessary to create claims without re-keying the information in multiple places. Within each appointment, you’ll find all the required information for an 837 file or CMS1500, and with the click of a mouse, billing information is automatically submitted to create a claim, or a patient statement is sent via the patient portal for your client to submit their own claim.
Stay on Top of Clinical Documentation
It can be challenging to keep up with your clinical documentation and no manager wants to micromanage that process. Valant’s scheduler provides undeniable visibility to undocumented sessions and incomplete or unsigned charts with a clear red/yellow/green indicator. These visual cues help you manage your documentation and hold yourself or your team accountable to completing documentation in a timely manner.
Increase Scheduling Efficiency
Create and store numerous customized HIPAA-compliant views to reduce clutter and schedule intakes more quickly. Search provider availability, schedule one-time or recurring individual and group appointments, and allocate free or busy time slots.
Easily toggle between saved calendar views for a single provider, multiple providers, program type, a particular facility or room, or the entire practice. These custom views shave time off the scheduling process by showing the schedules of only the relevant providers.
Offload some of your scheduling work to the MYIO patient portal. Through the portal, your patients can view a list of available appointment slots and request which one(s) they want. Your practice will receive the request and have the option to approve it before it goes on the calendar.
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