House Calls 101: The Complete Clinician's Guide To In-Home Health Care, Telemedicine Services, and Long-Distance Treatment For a Post-Pandemic World

by Dr. Scharmaine Lawson

Overview

Empower your patients and provide essential long-distance care with this complete handbook for house calls!

Are you a nurse or other healthcare practitioner, and you're searching for the best ways to care for your patients in the face of COVID-19? Do you want to discover how technology is continuing to revolutionize house calls and long-distance care? Or are you looking for a handy reference guide for providing and billing essential telemedicine services? Then this book is for you.

Written by nationally recognized and award-winning nurse practitioner, Dr. Scharmaine Lawson, NP, this practical guidebook seeks to redefine the nature of long-distance nursing in our post-pandemic world. Drawing on essential insights and reflections on our rapidly evolving healthcare system, House Calls 101 provides a wealth of information on in-home care, telemedicine services, remote patient monitoring, and much more.

As the guru in house call medicine and America's favorite house call nurse practitioner, Dr. Lawson shares her knowledge of long-distance care, providing key insights on the best billing and reimbursement options to suit your patients, the different options for care planning and management, and a wide variety of Assertive Community Treatment and Home Health Care Psychiatric Service options.

Here's just a little of what you'll discover inside:

·       How Healthcare Has Changed In The Face of COVID-19

·       Breaking Down The Basics of Telemedicine Services and Remote Patient Monitoring

·       Practical Billing and Reimbursement Opportunities For a Wide Range of Care

·       Essential Long-Term Care Planning and Management

·       How To Navigate Remote Mental and Physical Health Services

·       Why Technology Will Continue To Revolutionize House Calls

·       And Much More...

As an essential read for any nurse or healthcare worker who wants to better understand the needs of their patients and develop effective long-distance care strategies to help the most vulnerable, House Calls 101 offers you all the most up-to-date information on the ever-changing medical field.

Are you ready to revolutionize the way you see house calls? Then scroll up and grab your copy now!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781945088308
Publisher:	A DrNurse Publishing House
Publication date:	09/20/2021
Series:	Housecalls 101 , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	140
File size:	682 KB

About the Author

Scharmaine Lawson, DNP, FNP, PMHNP, FAANP, FAAN, has a nursing career that spans thirty years, with twenty-three of those years being an advanced practice nurse. Her innovative way of educating the youth about the role of the nurse practitioner has elevated the Advanced Practice Nurse. Through a series of educational tools such as dancing mascots, and interactive play, she orchestrates an entire learning production when she visits elementary schools across the country. Her largest show drew greater than 1000 students from Shreveport, La. Nola The Nurse® and Dr. Lawson have also been featured on several national TV outlets and other media. With greater than 30 titles to date, some translated in Spanish and French, Nola The Nurse® will soon be animated via Nola The Nurse® TV in the Spring of 2023.In addition, Dr. Lawson started the first nurse practitioner owned Housecall practice in the State of Louisiana. With greater than 100,000 home visits, it has transformed to meet the widespread needs of the underserved communities of Louisiana. To further extend the reach of her work, she has written a best-selling book, Housecalls 101: The only book you will ever need to start your practice, that outlines how to start a successful house call practice. She details in the book strategies to maintain a house call practice, systems to establish healthy outcomes in underserved communities, and offers inspiration to other nurse practitioners.Future endeavors for the DrLawsonNP brand include a new TelePsych practice launched across multiple states and a Podcast entitled Nite Nite Nurse: Sleep is Self-Care, soon to be released on Spotify, Anchor, Apple, and other podcast platforms.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Home Health Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Origin of COVID-19: An Overview

Providing In-Home Visiting Services amidst the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

Telemedicine Services: The 2021 House Call

Introduction

Classification of Telemedicine Services

How to Bill Different Telehealth Services?

Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM): The New Face of Modern Home Health Care

Advanced Coding Options and Reimbursement Opportunities

Transitional Care Management (TCM)

Chronic Care Management (CCM)

Principle Care Management (PCM)

Advance Care Planning (ACP)

Prolonged Services without Contacting the Patient Directly

Prolonged Services with Contacting the Patient Directly

Cognitive Evaluation and Care Plan Services

Counseling Services Regarding Smoking Cessation

Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Services

Anticoagulation Management

General Behavioral Health Integration (BHI) and Care Management Services

Interprofessional Internet Consultation Services

Assertive Community Treatment and Home Health Care Psychiatric Services

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)

Home Health Care Psychiatric Services

Billing and Reimbursement opportunities for the Psychiatric CoCM and General BHI

The Future of Home Health Care

References