Documentation for Medicare Services: Ensuring Defensible and Value-Based Skilled Care (Part A & B)

Healthcare reform is rapidly changing the landscape of reimbursement moving towards a value-based payment system. In the last two fiscal years, Medicare has cut an estimated $1.7 Billion in reimbursements, making clear and concise documentation critical to payment. Clinicians who can create defensible, value-based documentation will optimize reimbursement and justify their role. Those that cannot are a liability and will be left out as the fiscal belt tightens.

Rethinking Value in Therapeutic Documentation is a one-day course designed to reshape the understanding ofcreating defensible documentation that demonstrates value. This course will connect subjective and objective data to selected interventions and provide the tools to demonstrate value. Participants will be better able to set realistic goals, identify effective interventions, and modify treatment plansbased upon the interpretation of assessment data. By improving the clinician's understanding of value documentation, patients are protected from premature discharge and ineffective treatments; therapists experience less stress related to the documentation process; and reimbursement for services provided will be maximized.

Target Audience: Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Speech-Language Pathologists

Highlights

• Optimize evaluations, re-evaluations, progress notes, discharge, and treatment notes for Medicare part Aand B services
• Rethink how you document patient care to show value and progressions while reducing denials
• Put together well-organized assessments for patientprogress, functional deficits, and need for service continuation
• Pitfalls to avoid and compliance for medical errors, fraud, abuse, and EMR considerations
• Take away the best assessment tools for proven defensible documentation
• Documentation case studies to improve your ability to demonstrate skill and medical necessity