Informed Consent and Care Plans

A report of findings is not just an opportunity to sit down with the patient and bring them up to speed with the provider's recommendations, but also an important opportunity to mitigate some risk, and to establish medical necessity for third parties. The Informed Consent process, which is an essential part of patient communication, can be done the right way and the wrong way. Likewise, laying out the care plan for the patient lays the foundation for the care that follows, and is essential to do right, especially when third party payers may be scrutinizing the services for medical necessity. Join Dr. Evan Gwilliam, certified coder, auditor, and compliance officer in this riveting presentation and walk away with clear steps you can take to improve your practice.

To complete this course, the participant will watch two video modules and complete a T/F quiz after each video. You must watch the entire video and answer the quiz questions before moving to the next module.

• •Identify the essential legal and ethical elements required for proper informed consent documentation in chiropractic practice
• •Demonstrate proper documentation procedures for informed refusals to protect your practice against liability
• •Analyze care plan structures that satisfy third-party payer requirements for medical necessity and justify treatment duration
• •Apply outcome assessment tools to establish measurable patient goals and track clinical progress
• •Utilize Medicare guidelines and clinical practice standards to develop defensible, evidence-based care plans
• •Correctly apply ICD-10 coding principles to create diagnostic statements that support medical necessity and reduce audit risk