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NHS Claim Error - Treatment dates are outside the period of the contract or the performer's tenure
NHS Claim Error - Treatment dates are outside the period of the contract or the performer's tenure

πŸ₯ NHS EN/WA only - How to resolve the NHS Claim error - Treatment dates are outside the period of the contract or the performer's tenure

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Written by Shelley Withington
Updated over 2 weeks ago

Error Explained

Each NHS contract has an expiry date, and each practitioner is assigned to a contract for a specified period of time. If the treatment is performed and/or submitted with completion date that is after the expiry date the claim will return an error. If the performer is not listed on the contract, and claims are submitted by that performer, it will also return an error.

How to Resolve

There are a number of things you can quickly check yourself within Dentally.

Within Dentally, there are a number of checks you can make.

  • Check that the correct contract is selected on the Claim submission screen. Check that the contract selected is the correct contract. Check that the treatment completion date is within the dates of the contract.

Dentally NHS submission screen showing the Contract and completion date of treatment

  • Check that the performer contract is still valid for the completion date of the treatment. You do this in Settings > Practice > NHS tab > contracts.

  • If the contract has expired, you need to check the completion date of the treatment and check it is within the date of the contract. To do this, you need to go to the Treatment Plan, to the treatment item, check the date competed. Be aware that you may need to untick the completed item to enable it to be edited.

Dentally Treatment Item completion date

If you have checked all these possibilities, there is one check you can make outside of Dentally.

You can check with the local area team that the performer is allowed to submit claims within the specified contract.

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