Note: You can have up to 20 groups. For diagnoses, the Patient Specific and Client Favorites or Recently Orderedgroups count toward that maximum. For tests, the Client Favorites or Recently Orderedgroup counts toward that maximum (except for generic labs, which do not have a Client Favorites group).

Note: This check box appears only if the lab supports specialty groups.

Notes:  

• After you copy a group from a specialty grid, you can perform any actions on your copy, such as renaming the group, adding or removing favorites, and so forth.

• If any changes are made to the specialty grid by an administrator, those changes are not automatically made to your copy. To receive those changes, you must repeat the process of copying the group from the specialty grid. However, if an order code copied from a specialty grid later becomes restricted, that code is automatically removed from your favorites if the client does cannot use that code.

• You cannot manage your copy of a specialty grid group via the Favorites Maintenance page.

Notes:  

• You cannot set the Patient Specific group as your default diagnosis group. However, if there is no other default group, and a diagnosis is associated with the patient, the Patient Specific group always opens automatically.

• If you set Client Favorites as the default group, no group will be the default group on the streamlined order entry. The Client Favorites group does not appear on that page.

• You cannot set Companion Program as your default group.

• You cannot set a default carrier group via the legacy Order Entry page, only via the streamlined Order Entry page. However, any default carrier group set via the streamlined Order Entry page is likewise used on the legacy Order Entry page. For more information, see Manage Favorites via Streamlined Order Entry.

Note: You cannot rename the Patient Specific, Client Favorites, or Companion Program group.

Notes:  

• To add a diagnosis or test that appears in the Client Favorites group to a new or existing group, click the Client Favorites group and go to step b.

• When adding diagnoses, keep the following in mind:

If a listed diagnosis requires a higher degree of specificity, the diagnosis appears in red, and appears instead of a check box. Your favorite diagnoses can include a code that requires a higher degree of specificity, but you will be prompted to select a more specific diagnosis each time you place an order using that code.

In addition, when you view the group of favorites via streamlined order entry, all of the related codes appear in the list rather than the code that requires higher specificity. For example, if you add the diagnosis code 487 to a group, that code would not appear. Instead, the more specific codes 4870, 4871, and 4878 would appear, and the code that requires a higher degree of specificity (such as 487*) would appear in parentheses after the diagnosis description.

• When adding tests, keep the following in mind:

• If the lab does not support searching by aliases, only handwritten order translations are included in the search results.

• If you typed an order code or custom panel code that the specified client is not allowed to use, that code will not appear in the search results.

• If you type a custom profile description, or a partial custom profile code, or use an asterisk with a custom profile description or code, the profile will not be found. You must type the complete custom profile code.

• If the patient uses a generic carrier, and the associated generic lab does not use a standard compendium of tests, you must add the test to the system before you can add it to your favorites.

• If you retrieved a Medicare patient, you cannot add a non-conforming order code to your favorites. If the retrieved patient does not use Medicare, you can add a non-conforming order code to your favorites, but you will not be able to use that order code with a Medicare patient.

• When adding carriers, keep the following in mind:

• You might be able to search by key words such as the carrier’s mnemonic, address, or other terms.

• The search results do not include generic or custom carriers. To add a generic or custom carrier to your favorites, see Manage Favorites via Setup.

• If the carrier does not exist in the system, you might be able to request a custom carrier.

Note: The menu icon does not appear next to written diagnoses. Those cannot be added as favorites.

Notes:  

• You cannot add any diagnoses or tests to the Client Favorites group. The 15 most frequently used diagnoses or tests appear there automatically

• You cannot add any tests to the Companion Program group.

Note: You can add a diagnosis to a patient only if that patient already exists in eLabs (that is, if the patient was previously registered or if an order was previously placed for the patient).

Note: You cannot sort the items in the Client Favorites or Companion Program group. The items in the Client Favorites group are automatically listed in descending order by their frequency of use. The tests in the Companion Program group are automatically listed in the order in which they were added to the program by an administrator.

Notes:  

• Diagnosis and order codes are sorted first by length. For example, if you sort the codes 123, 1234, and 234, the order will be 123, 234, and 1234, since the three-digit codes are sorted before the four-digit codes.

Codes that begin with a letter rather than a number are sorted alphabetically at the end of the list, after the numerical codes.

• For carriers, the mnemonics do not appear in your list of favorites, but you can see them in the adjacent list of carriers.

Note: You cannot remove items from the ,Client Favorites or Companion Program groups.

Note: You cannot remove items from the ,Client Favorites or Companion Program groups.

Note: You cannot delete the Patient Specific, Client Favorites, or Companion Program groups. However, you can hide the Client Favorites group via your user profile.