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Purpose: To guide therapists on the use of the Assessment / Plan to guide strong clinical documentation and justification of skilled therapy services that are reasonable and necessary. Question Intent : The Therapy Assessment / Plan se...
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Purpose: To guide therapists on how to document Verbal Orders for therapy services. Question Intent: Therapy services must be provided and under a physician’s order. No changes to a plan of care can be made without a physician’s agreemen...
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Purpose: To guide therapists on how to customize the ORDER/GOALS for selected PATHWAYS and enter what is required. Question Intent: Patient specific orders and goals are required to provide therapy services. They must include the requir...
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Purpose: To guide therapists on the use of Therapy Goals/Status to objectively track goal progress throughout the patient's home health episode. Question Intent : The Therapy Goals/Status section is intended to track the objective prog...
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Purpose: To guide therapists on what to document in the Interventions/Goals section of an Evaluation visit. Question Intent: The Interventions/Goals section is intended to document the skilled interventions, techniques, strategies, and ...
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Purpose: To guide therapists on the use of the FUNCTIONAL TESTS AND MEASURES section of the Physical Assessment to objectively track progress throughout the patient's home health episode. Question Intent : The FUNCTIONAL TESTS AND MEAS...
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Purpose: To guide therapists on what to document in the Prior Level of Function (PLOF) section in HCHB. This is to ensure that PLOF documentation supports and relates to goal development for a restorative or maintenance patient. Question...
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Purpose: Co-Morbidities will be assessed at each subsequent visit after the initial evaluation visit. The primary intent of this pathway is to make sure clinicians are addressing any potential condition that may result in a patient’s hospit...
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Purpose: Guide clinicians on what to complete in Point Care when a discipline is ending, Clinician is unable to physically perform the skilled visit, and client continues to have other services ordered. Regulation: G460, G462, G434, G572 Pol...
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Purpose: Lymphedema care is a clinical specialty requiring a higher level of education and technical skill versus routine therapy services therefore needs to be designated as such. Maintenance therapy is a unique service different from that...