SNF Nursing and Therapy Collaboration: Optimizing Compliance, Reimbursement, and Documentation

Align resident documentation across multiple disciplines to improve quality of care and protect your organization from an audit. Proper documentation has never been more crucial under MDS 3.0, and this is the only product on the market that blends the perspectives of both a nurse and a therapist to ensure resident-centered care. Complete with downloadable tools and examples of documentation scenarios, you will create an interdisciplinary team approach to your documentation processes.

This book will help you:

- Align with MDS 3.0 documentation requirements
- Coordinate documentation between nurses and therapists to improve resident care
- Gain insight into nursing and therapy skilled services to promote better collaboration, reduce your audit risk, and strengthen reimbursement claims with comprehensive documentation
- Prove medical necessity and need for skilled care by practicing accurate documentation

What's New?

A brand-new section for this edition includes:

- Collaboration strategies that can positively impact quality results and limit the risk of lost revenue
- What therapy professionals need to know about the appeals and denials process

Expanded guidance for proper documentation and collaboration on:

- The Medicare meeting
- Prior authorizations
- Therapy caps
- Quality measures as a tool for therapy
- The five-star rating system