Trust Risk Management Services, Inc.

Our hearts go out to all California residents and especially our policyholders. Along with the rest of the nation, we are closely monitoring the wildfires that are ravaging the state. Please know that if you are in areas impacted by the wildfires, we are relaxing our normal renewal protocols, and we will be lenient with non-payments and late renewals. In the meantime, you may continue to receive notices from us, but if you are in the impacted areas, know that we will work with you to ensure you are able to retain coverage and avoid any additional charges for renewing after a reasonable deadline. Our main concern is for you to be safe and renew or pay your premiums when you can safely do so.

A few weeks back, we featured a 12-part blog series on documentation.  One segment, Tip #4, asked the question, “Is an Addendum or Correction OK?”  This Tip seemed to spark a lot of interest, so we thought it would be good to expand on this issue a bit more...

There are special considerations when engaging in telebehavioral health with patients who are away at college.  Here are a few considerations to keep in mind...

As a behavioral health provider, you may have patients who go off to college - either in or out of state.  This can be a difficult transition for the patient, as well as you, as the provider.   There may be some challenging issues and decisions about treatment.  A few questions come to mind...

If you have been practicing in the Allied Health space for years or are a new practitioner, you likely have heard the saying, “If it wasn’t documented, it wasn’t done.” This may have been taught in your training to enter your profession. Proper documentation is not as clear-cut as this statement, however. Documentation is critical, but there are also times when certain observations or occurrences may not be memorialized when documenting in an electronic medical record (EMR) or in written format.