Tracking nursing activities

[kat7464]

My manager recently changed our DAR (daily activity report) format, such that now we have to break out our time with patients and identify whether we a) performed a skilled intervention, b) Observed/Assessed, c) provided teaching. She says Medicare is wanting to have a breakdown of nursing activities. Is anyone else being asked to do this?

[HmarieD]

This is a new billing requirement of Medicare, the agency must assign G-codes to each visit to indicate what type of service was provided. Be glad your agency is asking you to do this, a lot of places have just chosen one code to assign to every visit.

[kat7464]

Thank you for clarifying this for me

[berube]

yep we are doing it also

[HealthyNurse]

HMarieD is correct- this is a new Medicare requirement. What you should determine is what you spent the majority of your visit doing. Obviously, for most visits, you may be doing all three or a combination thereof.

[KateRN1]

Yup. :-)

[twokidsmom,rn]

We were told we had to choose one no matter what we did.

[berube]

We also were told to choose one response, which ever was more evident with the visit.