Question
Do you manually type your letters of medical necessity or is there an electronic documentation system that you use?
Answer
Generally, I manually type my Letters of Medical Necessity using a narrative voice, but you can do it a couple of different ways. If you are new to this, I would recommend the website www.lmnbuilder.com to help with you, because it will build your Letter of Medical Necessity for you in a very clean, easy fashion. I would recommend that you keep all of the generated LMNs on a computer file. That way, you can refer to these files to write other letters. The framework of the letter is going to essentially be the same. If you start with this template and cut and paste things into it, it generally goes pretty fast. For example, you write a letter for someone who is going to be utilizing a center-wheel drive power chair. Then, two weeks later you have someone else who is going to be using a different brand of center-wheel drive power chair. A power chair is a power chair. You can take the information from the first LMN, cut and paste it into the new one and then adapt and tweak it to fit your new client. Using this method, you do not lose five hours of your life every time you need a new letter; it speeds up the process.
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