Clinical Social Work Practice Tools:
An Hour with Private Practice

This presentation was based on the NASW Legal Issue of the Month, Quick Reference Guide for Responding to a Subpoena.

The CMS-1500 Form Instruction Manual provides information on how to complete the form.

Medicare requires providers to document all activities and interventions performed for a Medicare beneficiary. These services include office visits,telephone calls, consultations, and referrals. Documenting services for a Medicare beneficiary is an important tool validating that services were performed. It also reveals the ongoing professional activities of a clinical social worker.

Documentation for Medicare:   Tips for Social Workers is an appropriate document for documenting in the clinical record especially since most insurance companies follow Medicare guidelines

Presenter: Lonnie Ropp, ASI Director of Product Management and Underwriting

In this hour-long audio recording, Andrea Murray, LICSW, Senior Practice Associate, NASW Office of Ethics and Professional Review, discusses ethical dilemmas in private practice.

As clinical social workers in private practice begin the new year of 2019, January is a great month to develop goals and conduct a review of your practice to ensure that you are performing the best work activities to continue to build a successful practice.

This Hour With Private Practice highlights important factors to help your practice become or remain successful in 2019. Most of these factors are centered around documentation, coding, and technology which place clinical social workers at risk for reimbursement problems.