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Documenting Medical Necessity: A Practical Guide for Home Health

Initial patient assessment in home health can be tricky. If documentation does not adequately provide a reason for skilled nursing care in the home, you might not get reimbursed at all. In this Guide, author Heather Calhoun, RN, BSN, HCS-D, COS-C, provides down-to-earth, conversational documentation tips with dozens of example scenarios to help nurses understand medical necessity and document in a manner that encourages proper and complete reimbursement.

 


 

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