Documentation 101 San Mateo (2023)

Documentation 101 Part I
(01:30 PM - 03:30 PM)
Pacific Time (GMT-8)

Debra Brasher

Handout(s):

• Documentation 101

This two-part training will provide an overview of the San Mateo County documentation standards for writing progress notes.  Participants will review the definition of medical necessity and how one can maintain a strengths-focus while also meeting medical necessity requirements.  In this session participants will work with the concept of functional impairments – how to identify them and create interventions that help to overcome these barriers.

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• Identify three reasons that documentation is important.
• Define medical necessity.
• Evaluate language as person-centered or not.
• Identify one example of each type of functional impairments.

Documentation 101 Part II
(01:30 PM - 03:30 PM)
Pacific Time (GMT-8)

Debra Brasher

Handout(s):

• Documentation 101
• Jayson's PSR Assessment

This two-part training will provide an overview of the San Mateo County documentation standards for writing progress notes.  Participants will review the definition of medical necessity and how one can maintain a strengths-focus while also meeting medical necessity requirements.  In this session participants will work with the concept of functional impairments – how to identify them and create interventions that help to overcome these barriers.

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• Identify three reasons that documentation is important.
• Define medical necessity.
• Evaluate language as person-centered or not.
• Identify one example of each type of functional impairments.