Send in the Subs

We've had more than a couple therapists come to us with a problem.  Specifically, they don't know what to do about subs and student teachers:

"We still want to track our goal data, but we can't have it be billed to medicaid because substitute and student teachers aren't eligible for that"


One of the suggestions that came up was a new service code that would allow you to say "I have a sub working on this, so don't bill medicaid, but here's the progress data".  We haven't had anything like that before, and so far we've been only asking for goals on services that are billable, but we don't want things like this to get in the way of therapists enjoying our site and feeling like therapylog.com is useful.

So, as of today I've personally restructured the service scheduling form to ask for goals on any service that is THERAPY (regardless of whether it's billable or not).  This in conjunction with the new service code (Substitute/Student Teacher, see screenshot below) should make your request a reality.  The new service code is not billable, so anything you record under it will NEVER get sent to medicaid, but it's still a THERAPY code, so it allows you to track goals and progress just like any other piece of billable therapy (so you can get those nice graphs on your caseload page to include the data your subs and student teachers collect).

Like most of our enhancements, this doesn't do anything for US.  We don't make any more money because you can now record more non-medicaid data.  Our value comes from making YOU happy as our users, because if you like and can recommend our service, we'll continue to grow.

So if you have something you need that isn't there, something that bothers you that you wish would go away, or just an idea about a little change that would make your workflow easier, don't hesitate to leave me a comment.  I'd love to hear from you.

~Ethan