Documenting for Medicare and Social Work
Record Retention
- 1:00
pm – 2:00
pm EST
- October 19, 2005
NASW’s Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is sponsoring a free
teleconference on “Documenting for Medicare and Social
Work Record Retention” on Wednesday, October 19, 2005
from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EST. This is the first of a series
of teleconferences that the NASW Legal Defense Fund (LDF) will
be hosting to assist NASW members who are Medicare providers
and private practitioners in improving their skills. CEUs will
be available upon request. Members may access the teleconference
by dialing 1-888-238-7805, participant passcode 824612.
Social workers participating in this conference will learn:
- Guidelines required by Medicare when documenting
- CPT codes required by Medicare when documenting.
- Common documentation errors made when documenting for
Medicare
- Sources of law pertaining to record retention and
- Information regarding how long to retain social work records
Instructors
- Mirean Coleman, MSW, LICSW , CT , NASW Senior Policy Associate
- Sherri Morgan, JD, MSW, NASW LDF Associate Counsel
CE
Participant Form | Evaluation
Form
(Word for Windows)
NASW Medicare Products
Available at: http://www.socialworkers.org/practice/clinical/default.asp)
- Becoming a Medicare Provider (2002)
- Medicare Part B Payment of Clinical Social Workers in
Private Practice (2003
- Medicare Ends Contingency Plan for Non-HIPAA Compliant
Reimbursement Claims (2005)
- Medicare Telehealth Provisions for the Clinical Social
Worker (2002)
- Medicare Update for Clinical Social Workers (2003)
- National Provider Identifier (2005)
- The National Provider Identifier and the Clinical Social
Worker (2004)
- 2005 Medicare Increase for Clinical Social Workers
- 2004 Medicare Increase for Clinical Social Workers
- Place of Service Codes for Clinical Social Workers in
Private Practice
Available at: http://www.socialworkers.org/advocacy/alerts/060305.asp
- Clinical Social Work Medicare Equity Act
NASW Documentation Products
Available at: http://www.socialworkers.org/sections/private_practice/updates.asp
- Documenting Patient Care in the Private Practice Setting
(2002)
Available at: http://www.socialworkers.org/practice/clinical/default.asp)
- Psychotherapy Notes and Reimbursement Claims (2005)
Available at: http://www.socialworkers.org/ldf/lawnotes/default.asp
- Social Workers and Clinical Notes
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