AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE
Sponsored by The How-to Manual for Rehab Documentation:
A Complete Guide to Increasing Reimbursement and Reducing Denials
presented on September 21, 2004
Nearly half of all rehab claims denials are due to improper documentation.
We know getting your therapists to document appropriately can be a colossal challenge. But failing to do so can cost you precious dollars. That's why we've developed this 90-minute audioconference: Documentation for Rehab Providers: How to avoid denials and increase reimbursement.
Your staff will walk away from this program knowing how to:
- Prevent denials as a result of better documentation practices
- Maintain quality assurance through proper documentation
- Increase your reimbursement from both medical and third-party payers
- Avoid audits and targeted medical reviews
- Document care in a more efficient way, leaving more time to spend with patients (Plus, this will lead to happier therapists and higher retention rates!)
Stop wasting time and money every year trying to guess which rehab area CMS will scrutinize for documentation. This program is an essential step in avoiding CMS audits and preventing a targeted medical review. How? By helping you improve your documentation through compliance with CMS guidelines and most third-party payers. This training program is your answer to efficient documentation!
Listen to Documentation for Rehab providers: How to avoid denials and increase reimbursement. This will be an extremely valuable 90 minutes of training you can provide your staff—and we do the work for you!
Our experts have prepared an agenda to walk your therapists through:
- The certification/recertification requirements: Do your therapists know how to obtain a valid certification or recertification from a physician? The requirements vary by setting, so it's essential that they know which ones apply to your facility.
- Requirements for plan of care and physician orders: Requirements differ between carriers, but your therapists need to know the basics to ensure orders are valid and plans of care include essentials like goals and rehabilitation potential.
- Components of evaluation: The evaluation lays the foundation for future therapy treatments. Your therapists need to know how and when to conduct one thoroughly to streamline paperwork at your facility.
- Reasonable and necessary criteria for skilled therapy: Ensure that your staff's care meets acceptable standards of medical practice, and are appropriate, safe, and consistent with the nature and severity of the illness or injury.
- Daily/weekly/monthly documentation requirements: Your therapists will be able to confidently show what services were provided, correctly bill for services to ensure reimbursement, and help documentation stand up to medical or legal scrutiny.
This program is designed especially for:
- Therapists across all healthcare settings
The following will also benefit:
- Directors of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Directors of Rehab Therapy
- Supervisors of Outpatient Therapy
- Directors of Rehab
- Long-Term Care Administrators
FEATURED SPEAKERS:
Rick Gawenda, PT, is the Director of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Detroit Receiving Hospital and owner of Gawenda Seminars. Mr. Gawenda has worked in all areas of therapy within the hospital setting. He has provided valuable education and consulting to both hospitals and his peers in the area of coding, billing, documentation, reimbursement, and the appeals process for Medicare denied claims.
Jeanie Fountain, OTR/L, COF, has been an occupational therapist for 10 years. She has had extensive experience in documentation training and quality assurance through her 10 years of direct patient care and recent four years as a manager/QA specialist. Ms. Fountain currently manages her own educational seminar company, Midwest Seminars & Consultation, Inc.
Victoria Groves (moderator) is a managing editor at HCPro, Inc., and writes Briefings on Outpatient Rehab: Reimbursement and Regulations, a monthly newsletter for the outpatient rehab industry, Rehab Regs, a free weekly ezine for inpatient and outpatient rehab facilities, moderates HCPro's Rehab Talk listserv and edits books on rehab topics.
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