Supporting Skilled Therapy Services
Meet Documentation Requirements to Prevent Medicare Scrutiny
Product Description:
AUDIO CONFERENCE ON CD OR ON-DEMAND
Sponsored by: The How-To Manual for Rehab Documentation, Third Edition
presented on July 13, 2010
Sharpen documentation to safeguard your reimbursement for skilled therapy services
This 90-minute program teaches listeners how to meet reasonable and necessary criteria for skilled therapy services, how to create strong documentation to support skilled therapy, and the latest requirements for the certification and recertification processes. Speaker Rick Gawenda, P.T. provides simple steps to help your staff document to not only prove medical necessity but to support the services your facility is financially responsible for.
At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:
- Differentiate between documenting medical necessity and supporting services rendered/billed
- Identify required content and time frame for completion of progress reports under Medicare
- Identify required content for daily documentation and discharge summaries
- Describe the certification and recertification requirements
- Determine the timeliness and validity of initial certification
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- Reasonable and necessary criteria for skilled therapy services
- Differentiate between covered and noncovered services
- Identify at least three criteria for skilled therapy services
- Necessary components of documentation to support skilled therapy services for reimbursement
- Progress reports
- Treatment and daily notes
- Discharge reports
- Definitions and requirements for the certification/recertification process
- Timely certification and recertification
- Validity of initial certification
- Required elements of certification and recertification
- Q&A
BONUS MATERIALS INCLUDED IN YOUR MATERIAL PACKET!
In addition to the expertise and information presented during this audio conference, you'll also receive these helpful “take-aways” provided within your materials pack:
- Occupational therapy flow sheet
- Physical therapy and occupational therapy evaluation
- Physical therapy daily notes
- Physical therapy flow sheet
- Speech language pathology flow sheet
- Speech therapy evaluation
- Therapy discharge
- Updated plan of progress for outpatient rehab
- Audit tool
These materials are provided prior with PDF links.
SPEAKER:
Rick Gawenda, P.T., is the owner of Gawenda Seminars and Director of Finance for Kinetix Advanced Physical Therapy, Inc., a PT owned private practice in southern California. He has experience working with hospitals, Nursing homes, rehabilitation agencies, private practices and his peers in the areas of CPT and ICD-9 coding, billing, documentation, and reimbursement as it pertains to outpatient therapy services as well as appeals process for Medicare denied claims.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
The following professionals in long-term care and outpatient settings:
Occupational therapists, Occupational therapist assistants, Physical therapists, Physical therapist assistants, Speech-language pathologists, Directors, Managers, and Supervisors of therapy departments, Billers, and Compliance officers
Purchase a CD or an audio on-demand of the audio conference and listen when you can. It's also a perfect training tool for new staff or as a refresher for veteran staff.
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