Add and Configure a New Clinician in your PCC System

When you add a new clinician to your practice, use the procedure below to ensure that all PCC functions will work correctly.

Let PCC Know: Parts of this process require PCC to make changes to your system. Let us know that you’re planning to add a new clinician so we can make the necessary accommodations. Contact Support at 1-800-722-7708 or support@pcc.com.

Enroll the Clinician with Insurance Payers

Contact your payers and enroll your new clinician. This is sometimes called “credentialing” a provider with the payer, or taking steps so that they are “participating” with the payer.

You will not be able to submit claims until the new clinician is enrolled.

Provide Training Materials

It’s never too early to start training your new clinician. Use PCC’s full New User Training for Clinicians outline, or customize it to suit your needs.

Add a New User Account

Add the individual to your PCC system in User Administration. Use PCC’s Add a New PCC User Account to create a user account.

When re-enabling a user, make sure their EHR and Practice Management usernames are the same.

Adding a Non-Clinical User?: Create the user account and select an appropriate role using the instructions outlined here: Add a New PCC User Account.

Add a Provider Group in the Table Editor

Provider groups are used for reporting purposes. In most situations, you should create a new group for each new clinician.

Your office may have special reporting considerations for nurse practitioners, medical assistants, and other clinicians. You can set up individual groups, or a single, “Nurse” group depending on your needs.

Follow the procedure below to add a Provider Group.

Run the Table Editor (ted)

Run ted from the Partner Configuration window inside the Practice Management window in PCC EHR.

Open the Provider Group Table

From the list of tables, select table #19, Provider Groups.

Add or Choose a Provider Group

Decide on a provider group for your new clinician. If none exists, add or clone an existing group to create a new one. Many PCC reports use provider groups.

Press F1 – Save after creating a new provider group, then press Q to return to the main menu of ted.

Add the New Clinician to the Provider Table

After you’ve created a new provider group, you can add the new clinician to your tables and assign them to the group. Follow the procedure below to learn how.

Open the Providers Table

From the list of tables, select table #8, Providers.

Add or Clone an Existing Provider

Press A or C to add or clone an entry, enter the number of an equivelant clinician at your practice, and press Enter.

Edit Names, ID#s, and Additional Clinician Information

Fill out the fields for your new clinician. Pay special attention to fields used for claim submission and reporting, as described below.

• Provider Group: The “Provider Group” field should match the group you created in the procedure above, or another existing group.

• Type: By default, clinicians have a Type of “Real”. If you are adding a PA or other non-physician provider, you can optionally set them to “Not Real.” Depending on your configuration, the “Not Real” setting can require users who post charges into the system to select a specific billing provider for Not Real providers. Contact PCC Support for help configuring provider billing behavior.

• Initial: Be sure and select a unique “Initial” for your provider. If you have more than 26 providers, you can use upper and lower case letters.

• Required ID Fields for Claim Submission: The Clinician’s Tax ID, NPI, and Taxonomy Code are required for claim submission.

• Taxonomy Code: When you enter a taxonomy code, you can use an asterisk (*) to search and select from a list. The taxonomy code for a pediatrician (208000000X) includes a run of six zeroes, which is easy to enter incorrectly.

When you are finished, press F1 – Save and Quit.

Add the Clinician’s PCC EHR Username to the Provider Entry

Enter the clinician’s PCC EHR user information into the “EHR User” field.

You can optionally place a “*” after the beginning of the EHR username to choose from a list of existing EHR users.

Optional: Add Abbreviations

You may want to add an entry or entries to ted table #1, the Abbreviations table. You could create a few two or three letter abbreviations for your new provider to make your staff’s job easier in Practice Management tools.

Create Claim Holds

If a clinician is not yet credentialed with payers, you can create claim holds to prevent certain claims from being submitted. A claim hold prevents claims from going out for specific dates of service, billing providers, places of service, and insurance plans.

Read Hold Claims to learn more.

Configure the Clinician’s Prescribing Role

Define the clinician’s PCC eRx prescribing role and permissions in the User Administration tool. To learn how, read Set Up PCC eRx User Access.

If the clinician will be prescribing controlled substances, review EPCS: How to Enroll Prescribers and Prescribe. The clinician’s NPI and DEA must be present in User Administration to order a fob.

Contact PCC Support

If you have not done so already, now is a good time to let PCC know that your practice is adding a clinician. Contact PCC Support (802-846-8177 or 800-722-7708, support@pcc.com) so that we can update your notification messages, assist with special claim configurations, adjust provider scheduling groups, and facilitate eRx EPCS setup.

Configure Your New Clinician’s Schedule

New Clinician Not Displaying on the Schedule?: To troubleshoot, check the following: 1. Is the provider present in the Providers table, with their EHR User populated? 2. Is the Scheduling Provider checkbox in User Administration checked? 3. Does the provider have hours in their schedule template? 4. Have you logged out and back in? Contact PCC Support for assistance.

Customize Chart Note Protocols

Use PCC EHR’s Protocol Configuration tool to assign existing protocols, and/or duplicate and customize protocols for different visit reasons.

Visit Configure Chart Notes and PCC EHR Components to learn more.

Set Up Auto-Notes and Snap Text

Clinicians can create their own entires for frequently-typed notes.

Read Insert Standard Text in a Chart Note Field, and Expand Short Text into Common Phrases to find out more.

Set a pocketPCC Security Question

Your new clinician can use the My Account tool to review and adjust their pocketPCC security question. They will need your practice’s pocketPCC login URL to access pocketPCC.

For more information, read Get Started in pocketPCC

Optional: Add the Clinician to Chat Groups

Use the Chat Groups tab in User Administration to add your new clinician to relevant existing chat groups, or create new groups. To find out more, read Chat with Groups of Users

Optional: Set a Portal Display Name

In the new clinician’s User Administration entry, select the name that will display in the portal for your new clinician.

Optional: Sign in to PCC Email

Clinicians can access their PCC-provided email service using the steps in this article: Read Your PCC Email with Roundcube.

Optional: Authorize Work from Home Access

Practices can give remote access to clinicians with the User Administration tool. For more information, read Authorize Users for PCC SecureConnect.

Optional: Upload a Signature

Clinicians who want an electronic signature on file can upload their signature image in the Forms tool. Signatures should be written using a black pen on white unlined paper and scanned at a high resolution. Learn more here: Configure Provider Signatures for Patient Forms.

Optional: Update Notify

Request that PCC update the generic Notify messages for your new clinician. Include the pronunciation of the clinician’s name.

Optional: Sign Up for PCC Community and PCC News

When there are important service updates, PCC reaches out to someone at your practice by calling or e-mailing as well as by posting on PCC Community.

Your new clinician can sign up to follow important PCC news announcements and connect with other practices that use PCC’s software and services through the PCC Community site: https://community.pcc.com/

PCC Community is a Great Place to Get Answers: In addition to providing notifications from PCC, PCC Community also includes PCC Talk, an online forum where pediatric practices ask questions and help one another with issues facing their practice. For more information, watch the Get Started with PCC Community and PCC Talk video.

Optional: Create a Login for the PCC Support Portal

Your clinician can ask questions and review their tickets at https://support.pcc.com