Casebook for Managing Managed Care - A Self-Study Guide for Treatment Planning, Documentation, and Communication (Electronic book text)

In today's environment of managed care, practitioners face more daunting challenges than ever: treatment authorizations are becoming more difficult to obtain, as are referrals to other healthcare practitioners, which are increasingly performance based.Into this challenging environment comes Casebook for Managing Managed Care: A Self-Study Guide for Treatment Planning, Documentation, and Communication. Dedicated to helping mental healthcare practitioners clearly articulate and prove the value of what they provide patients within the managed care system, this foundational text uniquely fills a gap in the literature by providing a user-friendly, self-contained tutorial for the Patient Impairment Profile (PIP) documentation method. As a model for treatment plan development, the PIP combines impairment terminology, the impairment profile, and the various treatment plan components to create a common language for describing behavior-based patient dysfunction and communicating the clinical rationale for treatment.Using clear language and a wide array of case vignettes, the Casebook demonstrates how using the PIP system can streamline the documentation, communication, and decision-making processes.Useful as a stand-alone instructional text for all mental health care practitioners (e.g., psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, clinical social workers, marriage and family therapists, and psychiatric nurses, especially those participating as managed care providers) and for case managers and utilization reviewers-regardless of background-this volume is also intended for use as a companion to Managing Managed Care II: A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals, Second Edition, (Goodman et al. 1996), which introduced the PIP and the Patient Impairment Lexicon (research-based definition updates are provided in the Casebook).