Advanced Technology
An intraocular lens implant with the capability to treat astigmatism from within the eye.
What is a Toric lens?
I'm the template used most frequently by Surgery Counselors. They can enter procedure orders, enter counselor notes, and more.
What is the Pre-Procedure Template?
This website is used to keep track of payments taken via credit cards, and a report from it is usually run at the end of the day.
What is Instamed?
Perhaps the most important box on a surgery appointment, this is where all relevant information is expected to be documented.
What is Surgery Details?
These corneal incisions are small but powerful; they can reduce the amount of surface astigmatism and provide improved vision. They can be made manually or via laser.
What is an LRI (or Limbal relaxing Incision)?
A laser used in refractive cataract surgery; it is able to replace a few of the most critical steps including the primary incisions, creating the capsulorhexis, and making laser-induced limbal relaxing incisions (LRIs)
What is the Femto laser?
This part of NextGen is full of the administrative stuff - scheduling for clinic and surgery appointments, taking payments, posting batches, viewing patient charts and more.
What is NextGen PM?
Payments for surgical procedures must be collected no less than how many days prior to the procedure?
What is 3 days?
Flying a little under the radar, this field is important to notate important information, such as diabetic status and accessibility limitations.
What is the Description field?
Protein clumps that stick to the natural human lens, making vision appear cloudy, discolored, and hazy.
What is a cataract?
This system takes an additional 40 refractions of the eye after the cataract has been removed in order to give the most precise lens power recommendation. It's also very helpful for placing Toric IOLs, and in cases of dense cataracts, too!
What is ORA?
I'm the template that should be used when documenting telephone calls between staff and patients.
What is the Telephone Call or TC template?
Don't forget to start a Quick Batch by first clicking on this homey icon in NextGen EPM.
What is the Posting (home) icon?
I'm the doctor who recommended surgery.
Who is the Referring provider?
This can be present in one or both parts of the eye - the cornea and/or the natural human lens. It causes distorted vision, and a common sign of this is squinting and blurry vision at all distances.
What is astigmatism?
Some might say I'm the total package; really though, I give patients the best vision with the least amount of glasses wear afterwards.
What is the Forever Young package?
This part of NextGen is where all the patient's medical records are stored - everything from prior to upcoming information lives here.
What is NextGen EHR?
This is the tab located within the patient's chart in PM where future-dated encounters are created.
What is the Encounters tab?
Also known as the surgeon, I am referred to this in the surgery appointment.
Who is the Rendering surgeon?
This progressive eye disease is known as the silent thief of vision, because it's not usually detected until vision loss has progressed considerably. Vision cannot be restored; the struggle is to preserve it.
What is glaucoma?
This package includes astigmatism treatment with a specialty lens that will sharpen the focus at one range.
What is the Custom Care Package?
My account has been deactivated due to too many login attempts, or it has been 30 days since I have last logged in. Who you gonna call? (HINT: It's NOT the Ghostbusters!)
Who is IT?
Be sure to post surgery payments to this specific encounter, otherwise the money may be applied elsewhere within the patient's account.
What is the future-dated encounter?
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What is the encounter for the date of surgery?
This field is where Insurance Verification expects all the CPT and ICD-10 codes to be listed.
What is the "Insurance Notes" field?
This is a thin layer of tissue located at the back of the eyeball. It acts as a translator, converting light that enters the eye into electrical signals. These signals travel through the optic nerve to the brain, creating the images we see.
What is the retina?