With Instructor Anthony Von der Muhll, L.Ac., DAOM, DNBAO, FAIPM
Medical Documentation: Essential Best Practices
Live Webinar & Distance-Learning Course
Professional medical documentation is vital for:
- Supporting insurance reimbursement, and surviving insurance audits and records requests
- Building referral relationships and improving coordination of care with other medical professionals
- Improving outcomes and learning from your patient cases
- Defense in cases of malpractice and complaints to regulatory agencies
Class Topics:
- Bring your charting up to the highest standards of professionalism: best practices in contents, organization, terminology for initial visit HPIs and follow-up SOAP notes
- Subjective
- Objective
- Assessment
- Plan
- Practical and efficient charting techniques: save time and effort while improving quality
- Pros and cons of templates, checklists, and narratives: avoiding the appearance of "rote" treatment
- Custodianship and transfer of patient records: keeping it safe and legal
- Further learning: developing charting skills for your areas of specialization
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Class notes feature sample initial visit (History of Present Illness) and progress (SOAP) reports.
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Live class features instructor-lead peer review/feedback regarding student chart notes.
Please note: For Certification in Acupuncture Orthopedics, either the live class (8 hours/CEUs/PDAs), or the distance-learning class (5 hours CEUs/PDAs) + one live 3-hour clinical case mentorship meeting focused on medical documentation (no CEUs/PDAs) is required.
Billing managed care insurance? You'll also want to take Report-Writing Workshop for Managed Care: HMO, Personal Injury, and Workers Compensation. Take both classes for -10% off each.
Report-Writing for Managed Care: HMO, Personal Injury & Work Comp
Live Webinar & Distance-Learning Course
Report-writing skills are vital for treatment authorization requests and reimbursement for HMO, Personal Injury and Workers Compensation cases. Review and apply best practices for:
- Documentation and reporting of subjective and objective measurements of functional capacities and other key baselines, including:
- Standard, research-validated questionnaires to measure patient self-assessments of functional capacity
- Pain scales: how to use them accurately and reliably
- Findings from observation and inspection
- Joint range-of-motion
- Strength, sensory function, and tenderness scales
- Measuring limb girth and skin lesions
- Special tests and physical examinations
- Non-quantifiable assessments of functional capacity
- Setting appropriate treatment goals
- Presenting outcomes and making recommendations for future care to support reimbursement and treatment authorization/re-authorization requests
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Class notes include sample initial functional capacity evaluations and re-evaluation reports for managed care insurance.
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Live class features instructor-lead peer review/feedback regarding student reports.
Please note: For Certification in Acupuncture Orthopedics, either the live class (8 hours/CEUs/PDAs), or the distance-learning class (5 hours CEUs/PDAs) + one live 3-hour clinical case mentorship meeting focused on medical documentation (no CEUs/PDAs) is required.
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First time user? Your account will be automatically be created after purchase. Please note:
--Webinars require continuous attendance on the date(s) offered to receive PDAs/CEUs. If you cannot attend, please consider a self-paced distance-learning version instead, if available, or another class that you will be able to attend.
--Ebooks are included with class purchase--please do not purchase both. When purchased separately, Ebooks are for informational purposes only--no PDAs/CEUs.
Questions? Please visit our FAQ page. Thank you for your purchase!
has been added to your cart!
First time user? Your account will be automatically be created after purchase. Please note:
--Webinars require continuous attendance on the date(s) offered to receive PDAs/CEUs. If you cannot attend, please consider a self-paced distance-learning version instead, if available, or another class that you will be able to attend.
--Ebooks are included with class purchase--please do not purchase both. When purchased separately, Ebooks are for informational purposes only--no PDAs/CEUs.
Questions? Please visit our FAQ page. Thank you for your purchase!
Student Ratings and Comments
from evaluation from prior live class offering in 2016, as required by California Acupuncture Board
Respondents: 13 of 17 enrolled
Average rating: 99/100
- “Anthony as always is superbly professional, knowledgeable, and encouraging improvements in clinical practice. Thank you!” --Anonymous
- “All of your classes have been instrumental in my ability to improve patient care–but it could be a 2-day course to cover more. Thank you!” –Jennifer Root, L.Ac.
- “I always enjoy Anthony’s classes, very helpful info.” --Anonymous