Blogs - Tagged: Documentation

Date: Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Time: 10 am PT/12 pm CT/1 pm ET

Presented by:
Vicki D. Gines, PT, DPT Rehabilitation Supervisor at North Kansas City Hospital Home Health, Owner of Fifty Plus Fitness – Health and Wellness

Effective April 1, 2011, Medicare updated the “Medicare Benefit Policy Manual” for home health services.  These updates include provisions related to therapy services.  This webinar will discuss how to meet the documentation requirements for these key changes:

1.       Assessment, measurement and documentation of therapy effectiveness
2.       Initial therapy assessment
3.       Reassessment at least every 30 days
4.       Reassessment prior to the 14^th and 20^th therapy visit

Features and Benefits:

After attending this webinar, the participant will be able to:

• State how to document objective functional status at evaluation
• Write objective measurable patient specific functional goals
• State appropriate content of functional reassessments
• Identify and document skilled therapy in daily visit notes

Note: CEs are not available for this webinar.

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