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The Pitfalls Of EMR: How To Make It Work For You And Your Patients

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1.  What is the largest source of improper payments accounting for 67.3% of all errors? Coding errors Insufficient documentation Poor spelling and grammatical errors Too much documentation

2.  Therapy claims need to be ______________ to maintain Medicare Part A coverage if not skilled by nursing. Addressed Evaluated Validated Filed

3.  A qualified clinician must do what to a therapy plan? Establish Monitor Maintain All of the above

4.  A common pitfall in an EMR is not having specific and individualized plans for treatment. This falls under what regulation? Reasonable and necessary Skills of a therapist Supervision None of the above

5.  Which is a TRUE STATEMENT? An evaluation does not require professional skills to make clinical judgments. Services that can be safely and effectively furnished by nonskilled personnel or by PTAs or OTAs without the supervision of therapists are not rehabilitative therapy services. Extended care services do not have to be for the condition for which the beneficiary was receiving inpatient hospital services. Reports written by assistants are considered complete progress reports.