Mental Health Documentation & Medical Necessity: Simple, Clear Guidelines that Maintain Quality of Care and Protect Your Practice
“I love paperwork!”.
--Said NO clinician, EVER
Yet, the success of your practice depends on your ability to write good intake summaries, treatment plans, session notes, case/collateral notes, and discharge summaries. Taken together, these pieces to the documentation puzzle support your goal of providing quality services to your clients. They also impact the stability and success of your practice. When done well, they result in piece of mind and timely payment from insurance companies. When done poorly, they lead to the misery of denials, audits, and lost income.
The great news is that you CAN become proficient at mental health documentation and medical necessity. This seminar provides clear and simple guidelines for recordkeeping that adheres to professional standards and ethical codes, supports delivery of quality care, and reduces errors and delays in payments.
You will receive expert instruction from Beth Rontal, LICSW, affectionally known as the Documentation Wizard. For over 15 years, Beth has been instrumental at changing how individuals and organizations approach documentation. The results speak for themselves. Rates at which paperwork was returned to clinicians for correction have dropped significantly, in one case from 65% to under 8%. This gave clinicians back 3 to 5 clinical hours per week, saving thousands of dollars and improving job satisfaction.
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Mastering Differential Diagnosis with the DSM-5-TR™: A System-Based Approach
A recent study found that more than a third of all diagnoses assigned to individuals with severe mental disorders include errors, and over half of clients with major depressive disorders are incorrectly diagnosed. Such errors in diagnosis can greatly harm clients by preventing them from receiving proper treatment. Fortunately, most of these errors are easily preventable in the first place, and that’s where the DSM-5-TR and this webinar can help!
Using a differential diagnosis process with every client and applying the updated diagnostic criteria sets and specifiers for mental disorders in the DSM-5-TR, the latest version of the DSM manual, will improve the professionals’ accuracy in diagnosis and help prevent missed diagnoses.
This advanced seminar is designed specifically for mental health professionals seeking to master clinical differential diagnosis using the DSM-5-TR, the ICD-10 and online assessment tools. Case examples and studies are provided throughout - giving you the opportunity to learn and practice a symptoms-based, four-step diagnostic method. In this workshop you will also learn:
Get caught up with the latest diagnoses and codes in the new DSM-5-TR!
Don’t forget to have your DSM-5-TR manual handy!
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Differential Diagnosis Challenges: Clients with Trauma, Self-Injury, Impulsivity and Other Complex Behaviors
Take your DSM-5® diagnostic skills to the next level! This seminar is designed specifically for mental health professionals seeking to master clinical diagnosis and differential diagnosis using the DSM-5®, ICD-10 and online assessment tools. The focus of this workshop is on the key symptoms for each diagnosis, common differential diagnoses and frequent comorbid disorders.
Case examples and studies are provided throughout - giving you the opportunity to learn and apply a four-step symptoms-based diagnostic method. Topics include the clinical intake interview, differential diagnoses, online assessment tools to narrow diagnosis and potential comorbidities.
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1. Evaluate client syndromes of poor impulse control, suicidal ideation, suicidal capability, intentional self-injury and symptoms following traumatic experiences.
2. Apply a four-step differential diagnostic method to diagnose the underlying mental disorders of clients with dysfunctional behavioural patterns and/or a history of trauma.
3. Collect the specific information required for an accurate differential DSM-5 diagnosis of clients with a history of trauma.
4. Conduct a differential diagnosis for clients with impulsive, suicidal and self-injurious behaviours.
Copyright : 02/05/2019Comprehensive DSM-5-TR™ Updates: New Diagnoses, Coding Changes & Cultural Considerations
Neglecting new diagnoses, making coding errors & culturally insensitive language faux pas can be time-consuming, frustrating & cause you to lose clients.
But… it doesn’t have to be that way. Quickly and efficiently learn the updates to DSM-5-TR™!
Join Dr. George Haarman, PSYD, LMFT for the most thorough and comprehensive education you can get on DSM-5-TR™ updates. You’ll get everything you need to know on:
Plus, explore cultural considerations, broad DSM controversies, philosophy, unethical practices & more!
Register now!
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