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EEG testing referrals for healthcare providers
Healthcare providers can use this page to find NeuLine’s EEG service information, provider-order destination and referral checklist. Choose the resource that matches your next step.
Referral resources for medical-practice staff
- Start a provider order: use the EEG order page for healthcare providers.
- Prepare documentation: review the EEG referral requirements and checklist.
- Ask about a practice relationship: email accounts@neulinehealth.com.
The ordering healthcare provider selects the study type and recording length. The patient consent form documents consent; it does not replace the provider’s EEG order.
Email accounts@neulinehealth.com to get started, or continue reading to learn more about partnering with NeuLine Health.
Explore NeuLine’s ambulatory EEG testing services.
Are You a Healthcare Provider Interested in Offering EEG Services Directly to Patients?
Learn more about our EEG fee-for-service program for offering neurodiagnostic EEG testing services to your patients within your practice.
Review the CORE fee-for-service EEG program and the Business Associates Agreement.
Common Forms
New Account
Registration Form
Patient consent form (PDF): consent document
EEG order form: provider referral
Qualify Patients
When qualifying patients for EEG testing, the following diagnoses can confirm medical necessity:
| Abnormal involuntary movements | Memory loss/amnesia |
| Abnormal EEG (short-term test) | Post-traumatic seizures |
| Altered mental state | Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) |
| Brain tumors | Seizures |
| Concussions/head injury | Sleep disorders |
| Conversion disorder | Syncope and collapse (fainting) |
| Disorientation | Transient alteration of awareness |
| Epilepsy | Unspecified convulsions |
Meeting Medical Necessity
In addition to the aforementioned list of diagnoses, the following statements are excellent for determining when EEG testing with video is medically necessary for your patients. Please note that documenting any of these statements within the patient’s medical record is a requirement for ordering the test.
EEG testing with video can help:
Differentiate epileptic events from psychogenic seizures.
Rule out
non-neurological-related symptoms.
Establish the first diagnosis of a seizure disorder.
Identify types of seizure activity.
Confirm a previous result of an EEG test without video.
Psychogenic
Non-Epileptic Seizures (PNES)
What is PNES?
Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) are episodic changes in behavior that resemble epileptic seizures but are not associated with abnormal brain electrical discharges.
These seizures are associated with underlying psychological stressors and are classified as a conversion disorder (Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder). In conversion disorders, psychological stressors and/or emotional conflicts are converted into or expressed as physical symptoms.
Testing
The gold standard for PNES diagnosis is obtaining ambulatory EEG with video (AEEG) monitoring and recording “typical” events that have no evidence of associated epileptiform discharges. These monitoring results are reviewed by a physician with expertise in epilepsy.
Meeting
Medical Necessity:
History of traumatic or adverse
life experiences
History of psychiatric disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder and/or personality disorders
History of medically
unexplained symptoms
Epilepsy
Psychological adverse events