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Instructional Level: Beginner

Accreditation Information:

Course Outline:

Hour 1

  • Documentation Components
  • Skilled, Reasonable, and Medically Necessary
  • Rehab vs Maintenance Therapy
  • Documentation Examples

Author

Amy McDermott, M.S., CCC-SLP, RAC-CT

Therapy Documentation: Telling the Rehab Story from Once Upon a Time to the End

Therapy Documentation: Telling the Rehab Story from Once Upon a Time to the End

1 Hours Instructional Level: Beginner
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Description:

Even though you’ve heard the terms skilled, reasonable, and medically necessary, are you unsure whether your documentation truly meets these Medicare requirements? Reviews and audits are commonplace; often, therapy services are denied when documentation is cited as lacking essential components. Therapists want their patients to achieve the best possible outcomes and be reimbursed for services provided – learning to identify and understand key documentation components from evaluation through discharge can help tell the therapy story, ultimately leading to a rewarding conclusion.

This course will review all elements of an episode of care, focusing on providing and integrating skilled, reasonable, and medically necessary services into the evaluation, progress notes, daily notes, and the discharge summary. Strategies for incorporating standardized testing, caregiver training, and the use of evidence-based treatment will be discussed to ensure the best possible patient outcomes.

We will analyze documentation examples and learn to differentiate between skilled and unskilled verbiage. We will discuss the difference between a maintenance program and a rehabilitative therapy program – when documenting, therapists will understand how to distinguish between the two.

Excellent patient outcomes begin with skilled documentation. This training aims to equip therapists with the most essential tools, strategies, and examples needed to build a solid foundation for patient and therapist success. 

Full Course Description
Even though you’ve heard the terms skilled, reasonable, and medically necessary, are you unsure whether your documentation truly meets these Medicare requirements? Reviews and audits are commonplace; often, therapy services are denied when documentation is cited as lacking essential components. Therapists want their patients to achieve the best possible outcomes and be reimbursed for services provided – learning to identify and understand key documentation components from evaluation through discharge can help tell the therapy story,...

Goals & Objectives:

Course Goals:

Participants will gain the most essential tools, strategies, and examples needed to build a solid foundation for patient and therapist success. 

Professional Objectives:

  1. Identify Medicare requirements for skilled, reasonable, and medically necessary therapy services.
  2. Identify and describe key features of effective documentation for the evaluation, progress notes, daily notes, and the discharge summary.
  3. Identify evidence-based practice and appraise their own treatment and documentation for skill.
  4. Recognize the difference between maintenance and rehabilitative treatment and understand the manner in which documentation practice varies according to the treatment plan type. 

Goals & Objectives:

Course Goals:

Participants will gain the most essential tools, strategies, and examples needed to build a solid foundation for patient and therapist success. 

Professional Objectives:

  1. Identify Medicare requirements for skilled, reasonable, and medically necessary therapy services.
  2. Identify and describe key features of effective documentation for the evaluation, progress notes, daily notes, and the discharge summary.
  3. Identify evidence-based practice and appraise their own treatment and documentation for skill.
  4. Recognize the difference between maintenance and rehabilitative treatment and understand the manner in which documentation practice varies according to the treatment plan type. 

Disclosures:

SEMINAR-ON-DEMAND 

"Seminar-On-Demand" course are streamed on your web browser if the online version if purchased. Our SODs are optimized for the most current versions of Safari, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. All SOD courses are mobile ready.

Contact Hours: 1 contact hours in length (check your state’s approval status in the state specific course catalog for your profession).

Target Audience: Physical Therapist, Physical Therapist Assistant, Occupational Therapist, Occupational Therapist Assistant, Speech Language Pathologist

Instructional Level: Beginner

Criteria for Completion: Criteria for Completion: A score of 70% or more is considered passing. Scores of less than 70% indicate a failure to understand the material and the test will need to be taken again until a passing score has been achieved

ACHA CE Approved Provider 

This course is offered for 0.10 ASHA CEUs (Introductory level, Related area).

Please note - ASHA reporting closes at the end of each month, with completions reported around or after the 15th of the following month.

Personnel Disclosure:

Financial – Amy McDermott is employed by QRM and receives a salary. QRM received payment from HomeCEU for the presentation of this course. 

Nonfinancial - no relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.

No relevant conflicts of interest exist for any member of the activity planning committee.

Content Disclosure: This course does not focus solely on any specific product or service

Cancellation Policy: For activity cancellation, returns, or complaint resolution, please contact us by email help@homeceu.com or by phone at 1.800.55.4CEUS (2387). We have a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Refunds will be issued for courses that have not been completed (exam not taken), or for any course that has been rejected by your board of approval. Webinar attendance must be canceled 24 hours before the scheduled start time.

Disclosures:

SEMINAR-ON-DEMAND 

"Seminar-On-Demand" course are streamed on your web browser if the online version if purchased. Our SODs are optimized for the most current versions of Safari, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. All SOD courses are mobile ready.

Contact Hours: 1 contact hours in length (check your state’s approval status in the state specific course catalog for your profession).

Target Audience: Physical Therapist, Physical Therapist Assistant, Occupational Therapist, Occupational Therapist Assistant, Speech Language Pathologist

Instructional Level: Beginner

Criteria for Completion: Criteria for Completion: A score of 70% or more is considered passing. Scores of less than 70% indicate a failure to understand the material and the test will need to be taken again until a passing score has been achieved

ACHA CE Approved Provider 

This course is offered for 0.10 ASHA CEUs (Introductory level, Related area).

Please note - ASHA reporting closes at the end of each month, with completions reported around or after the 15th of the following month.

Personnel Disclosure:

Financial – Amy McDermott is employed by QRM and receives a salary. QRM received payment from HomeCEU for the presentation of this course. 

Nonfinancial - no relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.

No relevant conflicts of interest exist for any member of the activity planning committee.

Content Disclosure: This course does not focus solely on any specific product or service

Cancellation Policy: For activity cancellation, returns, or complaint resolution, please contact us by email help@homeceu.com or by phone at 1.800.55.4CEUS (2387). We have a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Refunds will be issued for courses that have not been completed (exam not taken), or for any course that has been rejected by your board of approval. Webinar attendance must be canceled 24 hours before the scheduled start time.