Pre-ARD Alignment Checklist: A Practical Tool for IDT Consistency
Strong reimbursement and defensible documentation don’t happen by accident, they require alignment. During Maureen McCarthy’s presentation for the American Association of Post-Acute Care Nursing Annual Conference, we discussed how small documentation gaps between nursing, therapy, and MDS can create outsized risk during audits and managed care reviews.
To support that conversation, we’re sharing our Pre-ARD Alignment Checklist; a structured tool designed to help guide your interdisciplinary team:
- Confirm Section GG consistency
- Validate nursing case-mix accuracy
- Verify NTA documentation
- Strengthen therapy–nursing alignment
- Prepare for managed care and medical review
- Ensure the full IDT story is clear, consistent, and defensible
This checklist is designed to be used before the ARD, when there’s still time to align, clarify, and strengthen documentation.
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