Working on a procedure request case in Workspace

  • Release version: Yokohama
  • Updated January 30, 2025
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    Summary of Working on a procedure request case in Workspace

    This guide explains how ServiceNow customers can use the Pre-Visit Management playbook within Workspace to manage procedure request cases for patients. The playbook helps patient service representatives handle pre-visit activities, schedule procedures, and close cases efficiently. Note that starting with the Yokohama release, Pre-Visit Management is being prepared for future deprecation: it will be hidden and not activated on new instances but will remain supported for existing users.

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    Key Features

    • Playbook Integration: Enables visibility into cross-business workflows and actionable activities directly within Workspace via a Playbook tab on procedure request cases.
    • Role-Based Access: Patient service representatives with the snprevisit.patientserviceagent role can access and complete all pre-visit activities using the playbook.
    • Stages in the Playbook:
      • Intake: Initial review of procedure orders, insurance information, and patient consents.
      • Pre-authorizations: Capture and review insurance pre-authorization details if applicable.
      • Schedule procedure: Review and confirm procedure appointments booked for the patient.
      • Resolve and Close: Automatically closes the procedure request after all activities are complete.
    • Patient To-Dos and Notifications: Patients receive to-do items such as insurance verification and procedure consent forms through the patient portal, with configurable notification timing.
    • Automatic Workflow Actions: The system automatically assigns to-dos to patients, sends email notifications, and advances case stages based on activity completion.

    Practical Use for ServiceNow Customers

    • Managing Intake Activities: Review procedure orders, verify insurance payment details, and confirm patient consents all within the Intake stage of the playbook.
    • Handling Pre-authorizations: Enter insurance pre-authorization numbers and track approval status for audit purposes. This stage is skipped if the patient is self-paying.
    • Scheduling Procedures: Use the Create appointment action to book procedure appointments, then review and complete the scheduling activity.
    • Closing Cases: The Resolve and Close stage finalizes the case once all child activities are completed, streamlining case closure.

    Important Considerations

    • Pre-Visit Management will no longer be activated on new instances starting with Yokohama but will still be supported.
    • Patient involvement is facilitated through portal to-dos for insurance and consent form completion, improving process efficiency and accuracy.
    • Administrators can configure when the procedure consent form is sent to patients to align with organizational workflows.

    Use the playbook available with the Pre-Visit Management application to manage procedure request cases and schedule a high value procedure for patients.

    Important:

    Starting with the Yokohama release, Pre-Visit Management is being prepared for future deprecation. It will be hidden and no longer activated on new instances but will continue to be supported.

    For details, see the Deprecation Process [KB0867184] article in the Now Support knowledge base.

    The playbook experience provides fulfillers with visibility into cross-business workflows and the actionable activities used to complete these workflows. When the playbook experience is activated with Workspace in Pre-Visit Management, the Playbook tab appears for a procedure request case. For more information on how to interact with a playbook, see Interact with Playbook.

    As a patient service representative with the sn_previsit.patient_service_agent role assigned to you, you can use the playbook to complete all pre-visit activities for a patient. You can access the Playbook tab on your Workspace when a procedure request case is assigned to you. The Pre-Visit Management workflow populates the case data for all launched activities on the Playbook tab. You can select a stage in the playbook to complete the activities associated with the stage.

    By default, the following stages are available to you as a patient service representative with the sn_previsit.patient_service_agent role on the Playbook tab of the Procedure request workspace.

    Table 1. Pre-Visit Management playbook stages
    Stage Description

    Intake

    Complete the initial procedure order review activities.

    Pre-authorizations

    Capture pre-authorization details for follow-up and audit purposes.

    Schedule procedure

    Review appointments created for the procedure.

    Resolve and close

    Wait until all child activities are completed so that the procedure request is automatically closed.

    Note:
    Before the appointment date, the Pre-Visit Management workflow automatically assigns the to-do item to the patient for reviewing and signing the procedure consent, and also sends an email notification about the to-do item to the patient. The day when to send the procedure consent form is configured by your administrator. For more information, see Configure when to send the procedure consent form to a patient.

    Completing the initial review activities

    In the Intake stage of the playbook, complete the following activities:

    1. Review order: Review a procedure request order for a patient. When the review order activity is set to complete, the Pre-Visit Management workflow automatically assigns to-dos to the patient and sends an email notification about to-do items to the patient.
    2. Patient To-dos: Check the status of to-dos items for a procedure request assigned to the patient. By default, the to-do items configured for the patients are to review their insurance information and sign the privacy consent form.
    3. Review Insurance: Capture or review the insurance information of the patient.
      As a patient service representative, you can contact the patient directly to verify the insurance payment information. You can enter or review the insurance payment information from the Review Insurance activity of the playbook for Pre-Visit Management in your Workspace and mark the activity as complete when done. The Verify payment information form also includes the procedure payment type detail. Pre-authorization is only required with the insurance payment type. If the self-pay payment type is selected, the Pre-authorizations stage is automatically removed from the Pre-Visit Management playbook.
      Note:
      A patient can also access the to-do list from their patient portal and complete the insurance information verification activity. After the patient completes the to-do item for the insurance payment information, the Review Insurance activity is automatically set to Pending review. As a patient service representative, you can then mark the Review Insurance activity as complete in the playbook.
    4. Review patient consent: Check the status of completion of the patient consent form assigned to the patient. After the patient completes the to-do item for the consent form, the consent is listed in the activity. As a patient service representative, you can then review the consent and mark the Review patient consent activity to complete in the playbook.

    Completing the pre-authorization activities

    In the Pre-authorizations stage of the playbook, complete the following activities:
    1. Create pre-authorization: Enter the pre-authorization reference number as provided by the insurance company.
    2. Review pre-authorization: Capture the pre-authorization final status, approval or denial reasons, and other details for audit purposes.

    Reviewing appointments for procedures

    In the Schedule procedure stage, complete the Review appointments activity.

    Only after the booked appointment details are entered by using the Create appointment UI action, the patient service representative can review the appointment details and mark the Review appointments activity of the Schedule procedure stage as complete in the Pre-Visit Management playbook. For more information, see Managing appointment bookings for procedure requests.

    Note:
    After the Schedule procedure stage is completed, the Resolve and Close stage is automatically run.

    Closing the procedure request

    The Resolve and Close stage is automatically closed when all the child activities associated with a procedure request case are completed.