KEEPING YOUR FUNDING
It is not difficult to maximise your Government funding, the difficulty is in keeping it!
Maintaining Complex Health Care Claims: Question 3
- Question 12 part 3 of the ACFI Complex Health Care Supplement is ‘Pain management involving therapeutic massage or application of heat packs AND frequency at least weekly AND at least 20 minutes of staff time in total’
- Documentation requirements are the directive, pain assessment, and on request a treatment record
Are you meeting these requirements? Concerned about validation?
- We are commonly hearing at sites that the carers:
- Can’t find the time
- They’re doing it but not documenting their interventions, or
- They just aren’t doing it as they don’t feel confident in providing these interventions!
WE CAN HELP!!!
- The 1-category cut point achieved from this question is often enough to make the difference between a ‘C-Claim’ and a ‘D-Claim’, which can make the difference between a CHC Medium ($38.17/day) and a High ($55.12)
- The difference is worth $16.98/day, or $118.86/week, or $6,180.72/year!
- We can provide a W&L Physiotherapy Assistant who we train in the ACFI and Complex Health Care procedures and documentation standards, so that way you can be assured that you will get AND KEEP this increased funding
- We’ve worked out that just by one of our W&L Physiotherapy Assistants assisting in increasing and maintaining only two residents with this change, it will actually pay for a whole day of a W&L Physiotherapy Assistant for the whole year!
- In an 8 hour day a W&L Physiotherapy Assistant potentially has the capacity to treat up to 24 residents under Question 12 part 3 of the ACFI; this could mean an increase of $148,337.28 per year of income that you’re GUARANTEED to keep!
- Not only this, but the Physiotherapy Assistant can also be used to assist the Physiotherapist with their mobility, dexterity and rehabilitation treatments, leading to significantly improved resident outcomes
- We understand maximising your ACFI is one challenge, but meeting validation can be another! We not only want to help you maximise your funding but we also want you to keep it!
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