You may want to craft a script for presenting an ABN to the patient from the following web sites:
http://www.mayoclinic.org/becomingpat-jax/medicare-waiver-abn-faqs.html http://www.johnsonhealthnetwork.com/jmhpiabn.htm http://www.gomcl.com/abn_info.htm http://www.heartland-health.com/body.cfm?id=1290&oTopID=12 Joan M. Smith, MSN, RN-BC Clinical Project Leader Doctors Community Hospital 8118 Good Luck Road Lanham, Maryland 20706 301-552-8867 [EMAIL PROTECTED] CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: This communication, including attachments, is for the exclusive use of addressee and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, use, copying, dissemination, distribution or taking of any action in reliance on the content of this information is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return email and delete this communication and destroy all copies. Thank you. ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carla Fuller Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 11:35 AM To: [email protected] Subject: ABNS Does anyone have any scripting that they use for explaining the ABNS to the patient. The doctors feel that the blame is being put on them (which basically it is) when the ABN is explained. Hopefully, someone has something standard that everyone uses so we will not have to reinvent the wheel. Thanks, Carla Fuller, CPC War Memorial Hospital Applications Specialist 500 Osborn Blvd Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783 (906) 635-4663 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.warmemorialhospital.org <http://www.warmemorialhospital.org/> Confidentiality Notice: This is a transmission from The Chippewa County War Memorial Hospital, Inc. This message and any attached documents are confidential and may be protected by legal privilege, furthermore this communication may contain information protected by state and federal medical privacy statutes. They are intended only for the use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this information is strictly prohibited. If you received this transmission in error, please notify the sender and delete/destroy this copy from your system. Thank you.
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