Documentation Bootcamp for Skilled Therapy Services - Summit Professional Education CE Course by John Adamson, PT, M.Div., GCS

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With Medicare cutting an estimated $1.7 Billion in reimbursements in the last two fiscal years combined with the $3,700 manual medical review process putting virtually all part B reimbursement at risk, the need for solid, consistently skilled documentation is at an all time high. The Affordable Care Act brings with it further cuts to reimbursement, tightening the belt further on companies that employ therapists across the nation. Skilled service providers that cannot document properly are a liability to their employers and ultimately, themselves.

Documentation Bootcamp is a one-day workshop designed to take you through the steps to denial-proof documentation. You will learn how to interpret assessment data for patients on Medicare, set realistic functional goals, and effective interventions to facilitate improvement of function based on accurate assessment data. By strengthening therapy documentation skills, you protect your patients from prematurely being discharged from deserved care; prevent extra demands upon therapists due to denied claims that have to go through challenging appeals; and ensure stable levels of reimbursement for companies that employ therapists.

Since 1991, John Adamson, PT, M.Div., GCS, has worked in physical therapy in a variety of skilled nursing, acute care and home care settings as a clinical specialist, consultant and trainer. Mr. Adamson is involved in ongoing chart audits for state and federal compliance, as well as for reimbursement, and has assisted in Medicare audits, including ADRs and appeals. Mr. Adamson is a credentialed documentation auditor and recognized as a Master Clinician in documentation and Complex Disease Management, as well as a Geriatric Enhanced Modality Specialist. One of his primary goals is to instruct therapists on the practice of consistent, solid and irrefutable documentation to substantiate medical necessity and prevent denials. Mr. Adamson received his degree in Physical Therapy from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.

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