Guest guest Posted August 16, 2005 Report Share Posted August 16, 2005 Im sure I know the answer to this one, but just thought I would ask other hospital directors this question. When a patient goes from acute care to a SNF in the same hospital, is there anyway to transfer the plan of care to SNF without a second eval? I realize that if the patients status changes, then the POC/goals would have to change as well. However, I'm talking about the patient that you eval early in the morning or late in the day on Acute care to trear and/or determine qualification for SNF and they go to the SNF within 6-12 hours. I would just do a screen for SNF, but there are always instances where a patient does not go to SNF for a few days leading to no POC/treatment on the acute care floor. I'm certain that we have to do another eval(which is what we do now), but here are few points to consider: 1. Evals are not reimbursable in SNF, only the treatment minutes. Why fill out another eval form if POC/goals have not changed? 2. I do realize that one area is DRG and the other is PPS, but righting up the same eval within one day is the type of repetition I would like to avoid. It would also be nice if I did an eval late on a Friday evening and the patient went to SNF on Saturday morning to just be able to allow the PTA to continue treatment instead of coming in to do the eval. We are in a rural area where PT's are scarce and weekend hours are always overtime for evals? This is another topic I will bring up later. Thanks in advance for your thoughts. Darrin Taullie, PT,MS Director of Rehab AVRMC La Junta, CO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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