Mastery in Mental Health Documentation & Medical Necessity: Comprehensive Clinical Documentation for Psychotherapists
Credit Available - See CEUs tab below.
- Categories:
- Ethics | Legal
- Faculty:
- Beth Rontal, MSW, LICSW
- Duration:
- 5 Hours 58 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 05, 2018
- SKU:
- POS054275
- Media Type:
- Online Learning
Description
Clinical documentation is a professional standard of care, but there is little guidance about what to write or how to write it. Paperwork can seem disconnected from helping clients. It can create confusion and anxiety about possible violations of privacy and confidentiality, potentially traumatic audits, and even legal nightmares.
What are the criteria for a client needing services? How is medical necessity justified? How can the “golden thread” of documentation be created and maintained so that audits are passed and a professional standard of care is maintained even when insurance is not involved?
This recording can help answer these questions and more! Effective clinical documentation is not rocket science. It is a formula that, once learned, translates clinical thinking into clean documentation, so that writing notes and treatment plans can be done quickly and efficiently, getting authorizations is easy, and audits are not as threatening. In addition, confidentiality is not violated and continuity of care is practiced.
Choose mastery over misery and allow good clinical documentation to be a contribution to high-quality clinical work rather than a detour away from it.
CEUs
This course is available for 6.0 total CPDs.
The HPCSA has declared that any on-line courses CPD/CEU credited by a certified US board, is automatically CPD/CEU credited in South Africa.
As there are different boards for different disciplines, we at Acacia suggest that you use the Counselling CPD/CEU credits. These correspond to South African credits of one CPD/CEU per 60 minutes. If you choose to use your discipline's credits, please do so at your discretion.
PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Provider Number 50-399. This course qualifies for 6.0 continuing education credits.
Handouts
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Mastery in Mental Health Documentation & Medical Necessity (2.60 MB) | 51 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Faculty
Beth Rontal, MSW, LICSW Related seminars and products
Beth Rontal, MSW, LICSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts, as well as a documentation consultant (wizard) and private supervisor. Ms. Rontal earned her MFA from Boston University, and her Master’s in Social Work from Simmons College in Boston.
She was clinical supervisor at a mental health clinic for 16 years, where she was instrumental in developing and implementing the clinic’s first electronic documentation system. This implementation significantly reduced documentation time and errors and decreased the paperwork returned by clinicians from 65% to 8%, which in turn allowed for the addition of 3 to 5 clinical hours per week and generated thousands of dollars in savings for the company.
Ms. Rontal continues to be a developer and consultant in the field of clinical documentation. She is a sought-after national lecturer who has taught seminars over the course of many years, in addition to having published numerous articles on the topic.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Beth Rontal maintains a private practice. She is the founder and trainer for Documentation Wizard, LLC. Beth Rontal receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Beth Rontal is a member of the NASW.
Objectives
- Explain the importance of proper documentation in informing clinical decision-making.
- Evaluate the role of the clinical diagnosis in justifying medical necessity and providing more effective services to clients.
- Determine how to use the behavioral language required by insurance companies to facilitate delivery of services to clients.
- Explain how to document what really happens in a clinical session without violating privacy or confidentiality.
- Assess medical necessity by employing the “golden thread” for improved treatment outcomes.
- Identify potential red flags in documentation and the proper corrective measures for them.
Outline
Why is Documentation the Topic Clinicians Love to Hate?- How do you feel about documentation?
- Why is documentation so daunting?
- Why is documentation the topic clinicians love to hate?
- Why document?
- Definition of Medical Necessity
- What is “The Golden Thread” and how does it relate to medical necessity?
- What is the role of the diagnosis in justifying medical necessity?
- Definition of a treatment plan
- Everything that’s needed in a treatment plan and why
- How to write a treatment plan that justifies medical necessity using behavioral language and the “golden thread” with examples
- Practice writing a treatment plan
- Definition of a session note and how it relates to the treatment plan
- Everything that’s needed in a session note and why
- How to write a session note that justifies medical necessity using behavioral language and the “golden thread” with examples
- Practice writing a session note
- Definition of an intake summary and how it relates to all other documentation
- Everything that’s needed in an intake summary and why
- How to write an intake summary that lays the ground for medical necessity
- Definition of a case/collateral contact note and how it relates to the treatment plan
- Everything that’s needed in a case/collateral contact note and why
- How to write a case/collateral Contact Note that justifies medical necessity using behavioral language and the “golden thread” with examples
- Definition of a discharge summary and how it relates to the treatment plan
- Everything that’s needed in a discharge summary and why
- How to write a discharge summary that completes the “golden thread” with examples
Target Audience
- Mental Health Administrators
- Psychiatrists
- Psychologists
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Office Managers
- Mental Health Nurses
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Psychotherapists
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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