trarut
True Blue
We recently had a provider leave our practice and I'm auditing the unfinished charting report from our EMR - since apparently it didn't occur to anyone to have her make sure all of her documentation was complete before her last day I'm finding a handful of unsigned visit notes for several of our providers and I'm wondering how the rest of you handle unsigned visit notes that are more than let's say 30 days old. Do you do a separate provider attestation for the service date?
My other question is how do you handle unsigned notes for a provider who is no longer with the practice? The provider is a nurse practitioner and the services were performed incident-to. Ordinarily I would say that the NP must sign as the rendering provider but the incident-to piece has me questioning that. Is it acceptable to have a statement added to the note indicating the NP is no longer employed with the practice and unable to sign the note then have the supervising MD sign? Leaning toward "no" but curious what anyone else may have to say on the matter...
Looking forward to your responses!
Tracy
My other question is how do you handle unsigned notes for a provider who is no longer with the practice? The provider is a nurse practitioner and the services were performed incident-to. Ordinarily I would say that the NP must sign as the rendering provider but the incident-to piece has me questioning that. Is it acceptable to have a statement added to the note indicating the NP is no longer employed with the practice and unable to sign the note then have the supervising MD sign? Leaning toward "no" but curious what anyone else may have to say on the matter...
Looking forward to your responses!
Tracy