This manual will give you at your fingertips teaching that will help your nurses teach their patient information about their disease process. It will help your Company to bring unity to what your patients are taught. It will also help the RN in your company to increase their awareness on what other nursing DX that can use  in the home health setting. There is over 30 nursing diagnosis with there teaching found in this manual. All Nursing Diagnosis that genrate an increase in your clinical score, there by increasing your overall reimbursement are marked with a red $ sign. In summary, This manual will help with information to teach your patient, increase your medicare reimbursement and decrease Medicare rejected claims.

Answer : . This question is intended to be the date of the SOC/ROC specific by the physician.( eg. therapy only.)

 Example: If the physician order for a patient to be seen on June 15 and the patient is not available on that date, the date the patient wants to be seen is the SOC/ROC date. This date is place in M0102 if you get a new doctor’s order from the physician stating the service to began on the new date. If you do not get a new doctor’s order then you are to choose the second option in this area,which states NA- No specific SOC date ordered by the physician.

A: OT cannot perform the assessment of a eligibility for Medicare patients, but may conduct subsequent assessments of Medicare patients. Only the RN ot PT can conduct Comprehensive assessment for medicare patient.