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Navigating the Appointment status report

The Appointment status report details the financial and documentation status of every Show appointment in your practice. This report allows you to easily see client billing, insurance billing, and documentation history for a client, including identifying discrepancies so that you can make the corrections you need. 

Other possible use-cases for the Appointment status report include finding:

  • How many sessions you or another clinician in your practice has held
  • How many sessions are associated with a specific CPT code
  • How many units there are for any given date of service
  • If there are progress notes missing from any appointments
  • If there are appointments that haven’t been invoiced
  • Which appointments are unpaid for your practice
  • Which appointments are contributing to an insurance balance or credit for your client(s)

In this guide, we’ll cover:

Note: To learn about exporting this report, see Exporting your reports.


Accessing the Appointment status report  

To open the Appointment status report, select Analytics from the left navigation menu, then the Reports tab. In the Clients & Appointments section, select the Appointment status  report. 

Note: The filters at the top of the report may retain your previous selections.

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To view a specific client’s Appointment status report, open their Profile page and click the the shortcut link in the Client billing overview box. The report will be filtered to display only that client's billing and appointment history.

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Using filters on the Appointment status report

You can filter the report by dates of service, client, clinician, and appointment billing status. To do this, click the icon within the title of the column you'd like to filter. 

SimplePractice Appointment status report with a blue arrow pointing to the Client Responsibility Status filter dropdown, showing options for All statuses, Paid, Unpaid, Uninvoiced/Unbilled, and Overpaid.

Include Insurance

The default view shows you the appointment details as well as the client's financial responsibility. To include a column showing data related to Insurance Responsibility, select Manage report and toggle on Include Insurance. New columns appear for Claim status, Charge, Paid, Write off, Unpaid, and Details. 

SimplePractice Appointment status report with the Manage report menu open and a blue arrow pointing to the enabled Include Insurance toggle, which adds insurance responsibility information to the report.

If you've filed an insurance claim for an appointment, you'll see a Details link.

SimplePractice Appointment status report displaying client and insurance responsibility details, with a blue arrow pointing to the Details link for an appointment's insurance claim.

Clicking Details for an appointment will take you to a consolidated Payment overview page. This page will give you access to Payment Report(s) if they are available. It also includes direct links to the insurance payments associated with the appointment you're viewing, so you can make any adjustments if necessary. You can identify an appointment that has an issue and make the adjustments from this report by clicking the relevant insurance payment link. 

Include Documentation

To include a column showing Progress Note Status, select Manage report and toggle on Include Documentation. A column will appear to view the Progress Note Status for each appointment.

SimplePractice Appointment status report with the Manage report menu open and a blue arrow pointing to the enabled Include Documentation toggle, which adds progress note statuses to the report.

You can find each Progress Note Status meaning below:

Progress Note Status Meaning
No Note There isn’t a note written for this appointment.
Notetaker draft A Note Taker draft has been created for the appointment.
Unlocked This note has been written and saved, but it hasn’t been signed by the clinician.
Supervision This note has been signed by the supervisee, but is waiting for their Supervisor’s review and signature.
Locked This note has been locked and signed by the clinician and their Supervisor, if they’re pre-licensed.

Note: Practice billers can also view the Progress Note Status for each appointment by toggling on Include Documentation. However, they won't be able to view the contents of progress notes.