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“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, MSW, LICSW, affectionally known as the Documentation Wizard. For over 15 years, Beth has been instrumental at changing how individuals and organisations 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.
Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships
All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners. For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.
PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This program is worth 7 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Mental Health Documentation & Medical Necessity (13.3 MB) | 89 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Mental Health Documentation & Medical Necessity - French (13.3 MB) | 89 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Mental Health Documentation & Medical Necessity - Italian (13.3 MB) | 89 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Mental Health Documentation & Medical Necessity - German (13.3 MB) | 89 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Mental Health Documentation & Medical Necessity - Spanish (13.3 MB) | 89 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Beth Rontal, LICSW, also known as the Documentation Wizard, spent 20 years as a theater costume designer before bringing her eye for structure and creativity to clinical work. Over 24 years as a trauma therapist, she discovered an unexpected passion: transforming the documentation clinician’s dread into a powerful clinical tool.
While supervising at a community mental health agency for 11 years, Beth developed a practical formula for treatment plans and progress notes that transformed her supervisees’ experience of note writing. In 2012, she founded Documentation Wizard® to help therapists turn clinical intuition into simplified, effective documentation. Her trainings and comprehensive forms – reviewed by attorneys and a bioethicist – and her work developing an electronic documentation system have empowered clinicians worldwide. Today, Beth has a private practice in Boston, MA specializing in emotional eating and is an internationally recognized speaker and consultant on mental health documentation.
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.
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