New Updates from CMS for 2022 Payments
The new updates from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for 2022 Medicare Advantage Advance Notice Part 1 – Risk Adjustment proposes the move to fully encounter based data capture for Medicare Advantage payment.1Current HCC Coding Approach
- Manual processes
- Pulling charts ahead of a patient visit to look for conditions that should be captured
- Sticky note reminders
- Retrospective review after the visits
New HCC Approach
A Better Way
- Real-time, software using chart data
- Automatic during the encounter
- Recommendations delivered based on chart evidence at the right time in the clinicians existing electronic health record (EHR) workflow
Only alerted when there is a suggestion that may
help guide the provider to improve coding accuracy.
Community Health Network Sees Success with Actionable HCC Alerts
Community Health Network is utilizing 10 actionable HCC alerts focused on Type 2 diabetes and obesity resulting in a financial impact of $474K in the first quarter.2
$800 PMPM Medicare Advantage
10 actionable HCC alerts
resulting in
20K Medicare Advantage patients(5% of attributed lives)
13,500 alerts
triggered Q1 2020
85%
historical HCC recapture rate
61% average
follow rate
Actionable HCC Alerts help providers identify new codes not previously documented.
Benefits of HCC Alerts
Available in EHR Workflow
Actionable HCC alerts are made available in the EHR at the point of care and are designed to assist a provider in identifying whether a new or different HCC code should be considered by a provider to optimize diagnosis coding.
Suggests New Codes
Our HCC alerts are not solely reliant on prior coding history, nor do they focus primarily on the recapture of codes. This helps enable providers to identify new codes that have not been previously documented by providers, which may result in a year-over-year increase in RAF scores.
Expanded HCC Content
We offer more than 40 HCC alerts covering a variety of conditions including diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, benzodiazepine and opioid dependence, chronic kidney disease and more that can be made available as part of your clinical decision support (CDS) library.
Actionable Alerts
The alerts are designed to be actionable within the EHR workflow and built to limit the provider’s administrative burden by avoiding the need to remember to update the code later or navigate to a different part of the EHR to complete the task.
Provider Efficiencies
The alerts are designed to increase provider efficiencies across the care continuum, with the goal to help improve patient care, risk score outcomes, billing compliance and the potential to optimize Medicare Advantage reimbursement.What Can Stanson’s HCC Solution Do For You?
Resources
Actionable HCC Alerts:
Help Increase Efficiency and Revenue by Implementing Actionable HCC Alerts
Help Increase Efficiency and Revenue by Implementing Actionable HCC Alerts
Take Costs and Waste Out of Your Health System:
7 Steps to Effective Clinical Decision Support
7 Steps to Effective Clinical Decision Support
This is an advertisement for services. Results and savings will vary based on individual circumstances. Links are accurate at the time of publication. HCC alerts are not intended to replace the independent clinical and/or coding judgment of any healthcare provider.