Evidence-Based Therapy Documentation with Application to Therapeutic Exercises and Neuromuscular Reeducation

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Course Description

This course aims to help attendees understand the keys to meeting medical necessity guidelines in therapy documentation, with a special focus on definitions utilized by Medicare and other insurers to define reasonable and necessary care. The course will utilize Therapeutic Exercises (97110) and Neuromuscular Reeducation (97112) to help attendees better understand the fundamentals of proper documentation applied specifically to two of the most commonly billed codes by Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy staff.

Course Objectives

At the end of this course, the participant will be able to:

• Define “Evidence-based” and understand how it is determined in documentation.
• Analyze documentation using key words/principles outlined in Medicare’s definition.
• Recognize how medical necessity is demonstrated in typical components of therapy documentation.
• Meet, but not exceed, a patient’s needs with documentation.
• Define “Therapeutic Exercise” and “Neuromuscular Reeducation”.
• Identify testing options to determine the need for these interventions.
• Utilize evidence-based treatment strategies to support the skill of a therapist.
• Document to demonstrate the skilled nature of therapeutic exercise and neuromuscular reeducation.

Course Agenda:

8:00                 Introduction and course outline/objectives

8:15                 What does “evidence-based” mean, and how does it relate to documentation?

8:30                 What is Therapeutic Exercises?

8:50                 What is NMRE?

9:15                 Tests and Measures, and relationship to Therex and NMRE

10-10:10          Break

10:10               Therapeutic Exercise and NMRE diagnoses – general principles

10:25               SMART Goals/MICE model of care and application to Therex and NMRE

10:45               Documentation of Change of Function; with relationship to Therex and NMRE

10:55               Blueprint for a proper analysis

11:10               Analysis (group discussion)

11:20               Blueprint for skilled interventions

11:35               Skilled interventions (group discussion)

11:45               Review and Wrap-up/Questions

12:00               End

Other Course Information:

• Course check-in begins at 7:30am

• Prerequisites

  None

• Educational Level

  Intermediate