Valant

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

This allows practitioners to spend more time on direct client care and less time on documentation. The planners are grounded in evidence-based practices (EBP) , incorporating current research and clinical guidelines. This leads to more efficient documentation processes and better overall practice management.

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Health Prime

OCTOBER 3, 2024

After all, detailed documentation is essential for selecting the most accurate codes. Verify laterality: Always double-check that the breast cancer’s laterality (right, left, or bilateral) is correctly documented and coded. Learn how to improve your medical practice and ensure you are getting paid for your work.

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Valant

MARCH 30, 2024

Complete and accurate documentation is a crucial part of the therapy intake process. A patient’s medical history, presenting concerns, treatment preferences, and any relevant psychosocial factors should all be documented. It ensures that important information is recorded for future reference and can be used as a baseline.

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Valant

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Practices may face administrative challenges, such as potentially restructuring their care delivery models. The Role of Specialized EHR Systems in Adapting to Regulatory Changes EHR systems tailored for behavioral health can help practices stay compliant with changing regulations.

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Health Prime

MARCH 21, 2024

Accurate coding and documentation process Ensuring staff members are well-trained in accurate coding and documentation is critical to preventing coding errors that could result in claim denials or delays in reimbursement. Healthcare practices can stay agile in a rapidly evolving industry by harnessing the power of technology and data.

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Valant

APRIL 17, 2024

However, managing these plans at scale is a complex task that often creates headaches for clinicians and directors in large outpatient behavioral health practices. If you’re struggling to manage the logistics of treatment plan documentation and wondering how you’ll cope in light of practice growth, be encouraged.

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Valant

OCTOBER 23, 2024

CPT Codes for Psychotherapy Coding Best Practices To select the correct code: Accurately track session duration Consider the complexity of the session Use add-on codes when appropriate Document thoroughly to support your code selection and protect against audits.

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Valant

JULY 16, 2024

What’s the difference between them, and is your practice compliant with the privacy regulations for each type? Failing to follow best practices for therapy notes and progress notes can have legal and professional repercussions. What are Therapy Notes? Therapy notes are a clinician’s private record of their patient encounters.

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Valant

AUGUST 20, 2024

Become familiar with the mandates and best practices that will contribute to a safe and effective treatment environment: Maintain confidentiality. Documentation: How will you document the group session along with assessing each individual as needed? Blog Starting Out With Group Therapy?

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Valant

JANUARY 30, 2024

Common audit requirements help providers maintain practices that align with the highest standards of care. Data Collection and Documentation What’s involved in insurance audits varies. Typically, auditors review clinical and financial data during mental health practice audits.

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Health Prime

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Reports are a great data-driven means of benchmarking the performance of specific processes or functions within your medical practice. In one of our past blogs, we delved into the end-of-year reports you should run in your practice. Read more about this in our blog How to reduce your Days in AR.

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Valant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Group therapy involves unique documentation and coding practices that can significantly impact your bottom line. These codes are used to document the services provided within a group context. Accurate Documentation for Group Therapy Accurate documentation is the cornerstone of successful reimbursement.

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Valant

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Blog Mastering Automated Reminders for Better Patient Engagement Read More Grow Your Practice Leverage Your EHR To Grow Your Practice Learn More American Psychological Association (APA.org) The APA website offers valuable resources for practice management and professional development.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

Thank you for continuing to check the Connect Care update blog for prescribers (ideally, subscribe to multiple channels; see instructions ).

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Health Prime

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Reports are a great data-driven means of benchmarking the performance of specific processes or functions within your medical practice. In one of our past blogs, we delved into the end-of-year reports you should run in your practice. Read more about this in our blog How to reduce your Days in AR.

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Practice Index

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

During January, Practice Index brought you lots of content, updates and news, if you missed anything, read more below. This essential document will help you plan your social media content. Download now Looking back at 2023 - Our most-read blogs - What a whirlwind of a year 2023 was! The longest month of the year is over!

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Valant

OCTOBER 6, 2024

By providing practitioners with pre-written, customizable content, the planners make it possible to reduce time spent on documentation , allowing for more focus on direct patient care. In solo practices, this can mean being able to see more clients or to allocate more time to complex cases.

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Valant

AUGUST 1, 2024

From the moment you write out the job description, you are making decisions that will either help or hurt your chances of drawing ideal candidates, so keep a few best practices in mind. Also consider how best to communicate your practice’s atmosphere and mission to the interviewee.

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Valant

MARCH 2, 2024

As you plan, consider factors such as the complexity of services offered, the size of your practice, the skill level of existing staff, and the suitability of your existing technology. Training should also emphasize the importance of maintaining patient confidentiality and accurately documenting services provided.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

For years, law enforcement has bypassed traditional means of securing evidence by informal requests for documents from witnesses of crimes. At some point, that practice bled over into informal requests for healthcare providers’ documents, including documents reflecting protected health information (PHI).

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Valant

APRIL 1, 2024

Compliance Furthermore, adherence to regulatory requirements and best practices is a need throughout any EHR migration. Practices must ensure compliance with HIPAA regulations and other industry standards to protect patient data privacy and security during the migration process.

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Valant

MARCH 1, 2024

Obtaining consent from patients at each step along the way is a best practice that helps protect patients’ rights and privacy. It is important to seek legal advice on how to start a therapy practice, in order to ensure adherence to local, state, and federal laws and regulations. Your EHR software can help with HIPAA compliance.

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Valant

APRIL 24, 2024

Objectives: Practice exposure to the triggering fear and refrain from engaging in compulsion during therapy sessions. It’s important to stay on top of emerging best practices and research in mental health, for your treatment planning skills and everything else. Seek peer review on treatment planning.

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Valant

JULY 5, 2024

Streamline Documentation: Use digital forms and automated systems to collect patient information before their first visit. With a large volume of transactions, streamlined RCM practices become even more critical to prevent financial bottlenecks.

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Valant

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Tracking revenue sources and expenditure patterns enables practice managers to make informed decisions that improve a practice’s financial sustainability. Evaluating staff productivity enables practice managers to allocate resources most effectively. For example: Define clear objectives and metrics to measure.

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Minority Nurse

MAY 11, 2023

Students should double-check with ncsbn.org that they have the correct documents to get into the test. 2019) The Voices of Graduates: Informing Faculty Practices to Establish Best Practices for Readying NCLEX-RN Applicants. At this point in their preparation, they know the content, the process, and what to expect.

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Valant

APRIL 2, 2024

Performance Reporting: The ability to focus on metrics such as patient retention, insurance aging, and billing documentation status goes a long way towards practice efficiency. Clinical Workflow Improvement EHR data can reveal gaps in care delivery, such as missed appointments or incomplete documentation.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

At least 150 Google employees already have access to much of the data on tens of millions of patients, according to a person familiar with the matter and the documents.” I’ve pointed to the Dignity Health campaign #HelloHumanKindness as a best practice communications and branding strategy for helping heal healthcare.

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Arkenea

OCTOBER 15, 2024

A custom healthcare website development opens up options for integrating features such as online appointment scheduling, medical resources, blogs, contact information, referrals, and a list of healthcare providers. The project requirement documents are essentially the backbone of our project. This aspect attracts patients.

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Bell-Brown Medical Institute

APRIL 15, 2022

This person not only has extensive knowledge in all areas related to patient care and documentation maintenance. She/he also knows how best practices to apply these skills every day at work while managing her own schedule like nobody else could do better than herself/himself.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Nursing is dynamic as patients, acuity, staffing, and medical best practices constantly change. The inception of best practices. I work to make nursing care in the hospital safer, more efficient, and lower risk by improving policies, workflow, and documentation practices. Advising on policy formation.

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Valant

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

A comprehensive treatment plan template tailored for behavioral health promotes standardized and evidence-based care, ensuring that practitioners follow best practices while addressing the unique needs of each individual client. This fosters a collaborative and goal-oriented approach to mental health treatment.

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Practice Index

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

J – Justify : Most indicators are based on NICE guidelines so they can be justified as being part of QOF to evidence that the practice is giving good patient care and demonstrating best practice. S – Summarise : The QOF technical specs document is quite a weighty tome. A bit of retrospective work may soon rectify that. (

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Valant

MAY 30, 2024

Keep in mind that some states restrict the legal structure options available to behavioral health practices. For example, in California, practices can choose a sole proprietorship or a professional corporation. Larger practices or those offering a broader range of services may face higher ongoing training costs.

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Medical Advantage

MARCH 28, 2024

In this blog, we will explore patient engagement best practices and the top patient engagement tools available. Healthcare providers can help by educating patients on how to interpret these documents so that patients are fully aware of their financial responsibilities and can make better informed healthcare planning decisions.

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Practice Index

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Best practice would be that this was brought up as soon as it was apparent there was an issue. And whatever feedback has been given, whatever concerns the employee has raised, whatever next steps have been agreed, all this needs documenting on the appraisal paperwork afterwards. Am I allowed to bring this up in their appraisal?

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Valant

JANUARY 14, 2025

Were guided by an advisory board of behavioral health industry experts and customers, so our decisions continue to reflect best practices in the field. Founded by a psychiatrist, Valant understands the work you do.

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