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Product updates
# ESA letters, FMLA, and prior auths from the chart

Nextvisit drafts ESA letters, FMLA packets, and prior authorizations from the chart for clinician review.
       Product updates / By Faisal Rafiq, MD /  Published November 19, 2025  /  Updated September 3, 2026  / 1 min read
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A patient needs an emotional support animal letter by tomorrow. Another needs FMLA paperwork. Three more are waiting on disability forms. Those documents are real clinical work, and they eat hours. Nextvisit drafts them from the chart: diagnosis, course, and functional language already in the record. It is a HIPAA-bound clinical tool, not a consumer chatbot pointed at a letterhead.

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## The paperwork that is not optional

ESA letters, disability evaluations, prior authorizations, and return-to-work notes need clinical information from the chart.

## Measured time savings

The 2024 CAQH Index estimated that fully electronic prior authorization could save medical providers and staff 14 minutes per transaction. ([2024 CAQH Index](https://www.caqh.org/hubfs/Index/2024%20Index%20Report/CAQH_IndexReport_2024_FINAL.pdf))

A Duke Health quality-improvement project reported an 18.5% reduction in EHR time and savings of 1.5 to 6.5 minutes per nursing reassessment. ([Lindsay et al., 2022](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9300261/))

The CAQH figure is an industry estimate. The Duke project measured a nursing reassessment workflow. Neither evaluated Nextvisit.

## Draft from the chart, not a blank form

When a clinician asks for an ESA letter based on an anxiety diagnosis, Nextvisit pulls from the patient’s timeline: diagnosis codes, treatment duration, symptom severity, and functional impairments. The draft is a formatted letter with the justification already in it.

Nextvisit drafts FMLA packets and prior authorizations from chart information. Review the draft. Correct errors. Send the document.

## The details templates miss

A return-to-work letter has to account for more than the primary diagnosis. Medication side effects, therapy progress, workplace triggers named in session, and accommodations that might make a return stick all belong in the draft.

That used to mean rereading several encounters. The draft now arrives with those pieces assembled, and it flags missing facts or contradictions before you send it.

## Security

Nextvisit encrypts patient data at rest with AES-256 and in transit with TLS 1.2 or later. Role-based permissions control access. Users can enable multi-factor authentication. The audit log records access to patient data.
      FR  Faisal Rafiq, MD Author     Published  November 19, 2025    Updated  September 3, 2026    Reading time 1 min   Filed under  [Product updates](https://nextvisit.ai/blog#product)      [Back to all posts](/blog)                See it on your workflow
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