Guest guest Posted December 30, 2008 Report Share Posted December 30, 2008 Again, I have to go with PTOS on this one, It all boils down to comunication with the therapist staff, how you set up the schedules in the system to book the therapist. I would say it would save you cost wise as well to have the therapist treating the patients and the office staff scheduling. Diane McKeon " McKeon Services " Medical Billing/ Business Office Manager cell http://www.jobfox.com/people/dmckeon07 ________________________________ To: PTManager Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 8:36:38 AM Subject: Scheduling Patients We are a hospital based outpatient facility with about 10 PT's, 3 PTA's, 5 OT's, 1 COTA, 1 tech, and 2 SLP's. We currently have our front office staff scheduling new patients for their evals based on times given by each therapist on a weekly basis. (They are each required to reserve slots for at least 5 new patients a week). Each therapist then schedules their own patients for treatments. We are considering utilizing our front office to schedule all appointments including treatments. I was hoping others could give some input on this. I have multiple concerns including the software we use to schedule (not ideal), and the inability to most effeciently schedule patients. I believe the therapist knows best about who can be doubled, who can be dovetailed, etc. They are the ones who know when timed and untimed codes will overlap. Having the front office schedule will limit the ability to do this. However, each therapist scheduling their own patients is becoming time consuming. Any thoughts or input would be appreciated. Michigan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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