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Record Keeping Course
Self-Study
8 Credit Hours
Record Keeping Basics / Self-Study Format
This self-study course details recommended documentation
techniques for adequate record keeping. Appropriate record keeping is
vital for supporting diagnostic and treatment decisions, as well as to
prevent payment problems with dental benefit plans. Malpractice and
adverse insurance company "utilization review" problems can be mediated
with adequate and detailed records. Learn what a proper record must
contain to be considered adequate.
This self-study program may be appropriate for dentists
and/or staff who are being required to complete a record keeping course.
Problems with record keeping continue to be common with State Dental
Boards. Dentists facing Board sanctions often have issues of inadequate
record keeping and documentation. In addition, financial/insurance
disputes with patients often hinge on records.
While many State Dental Boards require that dentists
with record keeping issues attend a course on record keeping, few such
courses are offered. A self-study program may fulfill the requirement.
Course Objectives: You Will Learn About
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Documenting medical and dental histories
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Record keeping for initial data collection
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Documentation of a treatment plan
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Guidelines for informed consent and progress notes
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Process of Care Evaluation Measures - five page guideline
to evaluating any chart
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Guidelines for prescribing dental radiographs (ADA)
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HIPAA basics, including "Notice of Privacy Practices" and
Acknowledgement of Privacy Practices
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Elements required for a proper record - paper or computer
Course materials:
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Record Keeping Basics - Printed Power Point booklet and
CDRom.
(Microsoft Office Power Point and CDRom Drive/Player required)
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Complete sample - adequate record - "The First Encounter"
chart; including 18 forms and chart folder
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Complete 28-page instruction manual for "The First
Encounter" chart
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Informed Consent Booklet of 31 individual procedure,
reproducible forms.
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Process of Care Evaluation Measures guidelines (Evaluation
of a patient record) developed cooperatively by the California Dental
Association, California Association of Dental Plans, and Delta Dental of
California. Guidelines format designed by Dr. D.E. Fitzgerald.
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Guidelines for Prescribing Dental Radiographs - developed
by Eastman Kodak in cooperation with the FDA, AGD, AADR, AAOM, AAPD, AAP,
and ADA.
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Self-Test - Return to Stepping Stones to Completion
Certificate.
A written CE Verification Form may be obtained after
returning the Self Test. A similar program in a
non-self study format is offered by the author for the ADA Seminar Series,
however, this self-study course in not that program. This course takes
approximately 8 hours to complete. (8 credits) AGD members must include
their ID numbers and State license numbers with their Self Tests for
credit.
Course Author:
Carol D. Tekavec CDA RDH is a well-known author and
lecturer on practice management topics. She has presented programs
nationally, internationally, and on videotape. She currently offers a
course for the American Dental Association Seminar Series, "Update on
Record Keeping and Insurance". She is the designer of a popular dental
chart, the First Encounter, author of the insurance reference manual the
Dental Insurance Handbook, and has developed many other practice systems and formats,
including an Informed Consent booklet in English and Spanish, a Dental
Office Letters book, and basic HIPAA forms. She was a columnist on
insurance for Dental Economics magazine and has authored
over 300 magazine and journal articles.
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Record Keeping Course Self-Study |
$250.00 |
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