If you avoid writing treatment plans, you aren’t alone. Yet treatment plans are required by insurance plans, ethics codes, and even many state laws. In fact, if you don’t write treatment plans, you (or your client) may be asked to pay money back to a health plan due to lack of necessary documentation for billing. Plus, a treatment plan can protect both you and your clients, ensuring all parties have a clear understanding of the goals and progress being made.
This course developed from a webinar will give you the tools to help you write a brief treatment plan that fulfills the expectations of insurance and other oversight agencies. Topics include:
How treatment plans are different than progress notes
The bare essentials of a treatment plan
How to choose goals — and which goals to avoid
How objectives differ from goals
“SMART goals” and “the Golden Thread”
How to choose and describe interventions
How to update plans — and how often you should
How Medical Necessity Criteria of health plans affect goals
Sample treatment plans
FREE DOWNLOADS: Best of all, all participants will be given:
Downloadable sample treatment plans for anxiety and depression
A blank treatment plan template
A list of sample interventions
A list of goals and objectives for children and teens
Educational Objectives
This course will teach the participant to
Be able to identify the four main components of a good treatment plan
Be able to define the difference between treatment goals and objectives
Know how to choose goals that are related to the diagnosis and medically necessary, so that they meet with insurance plan approval
Be able to define "S.M.A.R.T." goals, and "The Golden Thread" of documentation
Syllabus
What is a treatment plan?
Results of my survey regarding treatment plans
Why treatment plans are needed (e.g required by legal, ethical, insurance)
How treatment plans are beneficial
The Golden Thread
The 5 Building Blocks of a Treatment Plan
SMART Goals, Objectives, and Interventions: Definitions and Examples
Which goals to avoid
Goals and health plan’s Medical Necessity Criteria
Couples Treatment plans — sample couples goals
How often to update treatment plans
Sample treatment plans (for individual and couples)
