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Adding Member Credentials to Session Notes (Motivity Clinical & Motivity Practice Management)

Learn how to sync provider credentials from Practice Management into Clinical session notes for clean documentation and payor compliance.

This article applies to both Motivity Clinical and Motivity Practice Management. It explains how to sync provider credentials from Practice Management and show them on Clinical session notes.

This article walks you through how to add provider credentials directly to session notes in Motivity Clinical. By connecting your Practice Management (PM) credentialing data to Clinical, you can ensure your documentation is both professional and audit-ready — all with minimal manual effort.


Step 1: Enable the Credential Sync in Practice Management

Your administrators control which credentials sync over to Clinical by mapping them in Practice Management. This ensures only the credentials relevant to your clinical documentation are included.

  1. In Motivity PM, navigate to Admin > Credentialing Categories.

  2. Click on the name of the credential you want to update.

  3. (Optional) Define an Alias: To keep clinical documents clean and concise, enter an abbreviation (e.g., BCBA) in the Alias field. If left blank, the full billing name (e.g., Board Certified Behavior Analyst) will be used instead.

  4. Toggle Sync to "Yes" and click Save.

Once saved, the system will automatically and retroactively push the mapped credentials — along with their effective start and end dates — directly to the provider's clinical profile, as long as the credential exists in the provider's PM record.


Step 2: Add Required Credentials to Note Templates in Clinical

Once the sync is enabled in PM, you're ready to update your Note or Report templates in Clinical to dynamically pull in that credential data.

  1. In Motivity Clinical, open the Note or Report template you'd like to update.

  2. Add the new field by selecting: Imported Fields > Note Fields > Note Author's Required Credentials.

  3. Enter a custom title for the field (this is what will display on the note).

  4. Select your preferred date matching logic:

    • All Time: Displays all synced credentials regardless of their dates or status. This is useful if you ever need to pull expired credentials into a note for historical reference.

    • Note Timeframe: Dynamically displays only the credentials that were active during the specific timeframe of that note or report. This is the recommended option for most compliance use cases.

  5. (Optional) Check the Export box if you'd like these credentials included in your Note Data Exports.

  6. Click Update to save your template changes.

That's it! Once both steps are complete, your providers' required credentials will automatically populate inside their clinical notes based on the dates of service.


Understanding the Two Credential Fields

To give you maximum flexibility, Motivity Clinical uses two distinct credential fields — each serving a specific purpose in your documentation.

Signing Credentials

This field is designed to keep your signature lines clean and professional. It controls which credentials appear immediately after a provider's name when they sign a document (e.g., Jane Smith, BCBA). These remain fully editable within Clinical for users with Member Profile editing permissions.

Required Credentials

This field is built for strict payor compliance and audit-readiness. It captures multiple credentials along with their effective start and end dates, pulled directly from Practice Management.

For AIO Customers: To eliminate compliance risks and data mismatches, the synced Required Credentials fields are automatically locked for editing within Clinical, ensuring your PM billing data remains the single source of truth.

By separating these two fields, you get the best of both worlds: clean, professional signature blocks and comprehensive compliance tracking — all in one place.


Troubleshooting Provider Credential Visibility

If you’ve configured credential syncing but aren’t seeing credentials on a session note, check the following in order:

  1. Do the credentials exist on the provider’s profile in Motivity PM?

    • Open the Provider module in Motivity PM and select the provider.

    • Go to the Enrollment Req tab.

    • If the credential isn’t listed, add it (for example, RBT) along with its effective and expiration dates.

    • Save your changes. Once saved, the credential will sync to the provider’s profile in Motivity.

  2. Does the note template include the “Required Credentials” field?

    • The credential can’t import into a note unless its template has this field.

    • If the field is missing, add it to the template, then create a new note to replace the affected one. Template changes aren’t retroactive, so existing notes won’t pick up the field.

  3. Are the credentials and template both correct, but the credential is missing from a signed session note?

    • The note may have been signed before you activated credential syncing.

    • To fix this, unsign the note and wait a few moments for it to import the credential. Confirm the credential now appears, then sign the note again.

    • This fix only works if the note’s template already includes the “Required Credentials” field. If it doesn’t, follow step 2 instead.


Last Updated: 11/5/2026 by Tatum Winslow

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