Resource
Making the record reflect the patient you actually cared for, without adding an hour to every visit.
Background
Optimization has a bad reputation because it is sometimes used to mean inflation. That is not this. The goal is a record that accurately describes a genuinely complex patient, in language a payer recognize.
In practice that usually means fewer words in the wrong places and more in the right ones.
What we look at
- Agreement between the OASIS, the plan of care, and the visit notes
- Narrative language for functional limitation and assistance level
- Whether the reason for skilled care is stated or merely implied
- Templates and phrase libraries that produce identical notes across patients
What changes
- Revised phrase libraries that prompt specifics instead of filling them in
- Shorter templates with fewer mandatory fields nobody reads
- A one-page documentation reference per discipline
- Monthly sampling so the improvement is measured rather than assumed
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