IRF: Rehabilitation Physicians Guide

The Rehabilitation Physician's Guide to IRF Documentation provides rehabilitation physicians with the complete, up-to-date information they need in order to provide documentation that not only supports the "reasonable and necessary" criteria in CMS's Medicare Benefit Policy Manual, but also justifies each patient's continued rehabilitation stay. It not only helps rehabilitation physicians understand their role in the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System (IRF PPS), but also explains how they can provide defendable documentation for completing the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Patient Assessment Instrument (IRF-PAI). The guide includes numerous documents and templates designed to help physicians achieve these documentation goals, support each patient's admission to rehabilitation as reasonable and necessary, and support each patient's need for the unique services provided in this intensive rehabilitation setting. The templates and examples can be used for wri