Practice Management Alert

Person-Centered Care:

Manage Interactions With Patients With Dementia

Documenting the planning of comprehensive care can earn you more reimbursement. Seeing patients who have dementia affects your practice beyond coding diagnoses, and physicians and other frontline staff who interact with patients should be knowledgeable about empathetic ways to interact with people whose demeanors or behaviors may seem confusing or inappropriate. With more than 5 million people in the U.S. [...]
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