Understanding the Contracted Telehealth Provider Exam Workflow

This page is intended to provide you with an overview of the contract doctor-remote exam workflow. We have assigned practice roles to each stage in the workflow for illustration purposes—the exact role and steps will vary by practice. The following diagram is a visual representation of the contract doctor-remote exam workflow.

This workflow differs from the in-house doctor-remote exam workflow because the contracted doctor does not have access to or login credentials for your Encompass software—the contracted provider is external to your practice. The contracted telehealth provider documents the exam within the doctor-remote exam software and pushes the finalized exam to Encompass as a PDF, with some data, like IOPs, VAs, and C/D ratiosClosed Cup to Disc Ratio. The head of the optic nerve in the eye is known as the optic disc or blind spot. The disc may be hollow like a cup. The cup to disc ratio is the relationship between the width of the disc and the depth of the cup. In glaucoma, there may be a deepening of the cup; therefore, the cup to disc ratio is of diagnostic significance. The cup to disc ratio is recorded as a decimal (0.2, 0.3). A ratio of less than 0.3 is significant. also pushed to the appropriate fields within the patient's clinical history.

Final contact lens and eyewear prescriptions are added as PDFs within the Attachments section of the Patient Overview and pushed to the appropriate fields in the practice management system for lab orders.

The contracted telehealth provider also sends billing codes, but the practice's biller must ensure these codes conform to the practice's billing policies and the patient's insurance requirements.

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