Quickly gather critical information on patients
Electronic Patient Interviews not only have the advantage that the patient is doing the data entry, but also that the patient completes the interview prior to being seen, so everything is electronically documented and in your hands before you meet with the patient.  Not only is the critical information that you need documented, you also have the opportunity to dig in deeper to fully understand the patient's situation before you embark on a specific course of treatment.

Reduce Medical Legal Liability
One of the major advantages of an electronic interview is that the information gathered is consistent & complete.  This may not sound that important, but if you are documenting surgical readiness, for example, you know that you have not forgotten to check on something.  To the degree possible, you'll know that you have not missed an issue that indicates a need for further psych evaluation, and if further psych evaluation is needed you'll have documentation for doing so.  The same considerations apply to medication decisions.  The Medical Legal Liabilities for Chronic Pain clinicians are unusually high, and the more complete the documentation, the lower the risks.

Meet insurance authorization requirements
While you will need to test whether an assessment like the BBHI^TM 2 will be acceptable for authorization, there are no standards set by insurers establishing what constitutes an adequate pre-surgical psychological assessment  At this point in time, many insurers have found the BBHI^TM 2 test to be acceptable.  Being able to use an electronic assessment will streamline your authorization process dramatically.

Managing psychological assessment
The rules around re-imbursement and authorization vary from insurer to insurer and which region of the country.  Whether an assessment like the BBHI^TM 2 is accepted or not, for re-imbursement or authorization, the informed Chronic Pain clinician uses an assessment like the BBHI^TM 2 no matter what, to properly manage the psychological aspects of their patients.  Understanding the measured severity, red & yellow flags and critical items you can appropriately prescribe medications, counsel and refer your patients for psychological services when needed, which is all the payors are trying to guarantee anyway.

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