Maintenance Therapy: Evidence Based Approaches to Documentation to Ensure Payment

Course Description

Attendees will learn how to support the medical necessity for maintenance therapy claims through Medicare regulations and practical examples of documenting key components that assist in demonstrating to a reviewer the necessity of maintenance therapy services.

Course Objectives

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

• Describe how maintenance therapy came to be.
• Define what maintenance therapy means.
• Summarize how to prove medical necessity for any patient.
• Describe how to specifically apply medical necessity to maintenance therapy patients.
• List Medicare’s minimal documentation requirements.
• List helpful tips in documentation to support maintenance therapy.

• Prerequisites

  None

• Educational Level

  Basic

• Other

  Satisfactory completion of this course will require the participant to complete a 10 question post-test with a minimum passing score of 70%.