NHS Course of Treatment Status

Each NHS Course of Treatment has one of the following statuses set within EXACT: Planned, TC'd, Transmitted, Confirmed, Disputed.

The status of Disputed is assigned to a COT when it has appeared on a schedule but the number of UDAs assigned differs from what is expected. If you mark the disputed claim as ‘Accepted’ by ticking the schedule line, then its status will become Confirmed. Even though the UDA allocation from NHS Dental Services has a status of Disputed, the UDAs received are still real, so they are counted as confirmed UDAs everywhere in EXACT.

The Confirmed status occurs after a claim has been received on a schedule in EXACT and the UDAs match or you accept the difference.

You can view the status of a COT on the ‘List COTs’ screen (Administration > NHS > Course of Treatment), in the ‘COT Status’ column. This column is sortable, with COT number as the secondary sort order. A second column - the ‘Confirmed UDA/UOAs’ column - on the ‘List COTs’ screen shows the confirmed number of UDAs allocated to the course: