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Third Pass: Risk Adjustment QA and Compliance
Compliance is an integral part of any risk adjustment strategy. The goal of capturing HCC codes is to accurately capture the full health status and disease burden of both individuals (and therefore populations) under value-based care. In this sense, the financial incentive is ultimately another tool CMS uses to motivate participants in risk-sharing arrangements towards […]
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Risk Adjustment Compliance Recap: Best Practices for Avoiding Legal Action
Last week, Health Fidelity hosted a risk adjustment legal compliance webinar, “Risk Adjustment Compliance: Best Practices for Avoiding Legal Action.” I had the privilege of being joined by Health Fidelity VP of business development John Blevins as well as lawyers and healthcare legal experts Stephen Bittinger and John Lawrence of K&L Gates. The event itself […]
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Prioritizing Risk Capture Compliance with NLP
In the past few weeks, several new stories have broken around risk capture compliance issues, particularly when it comes to Medicare Advantage. Individual DOJ lawsuits around MA risk capture and government agencies like the OIG weighing in on MA policy itself have led to a barnstorm of op-eds. The crux of these stories, even the […]
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An effective and essential risk adjustment strategy includes the prioritization of chronic condition recapture each year. The benefit of prioritizing your HCC recapture rate comes directly from the requirement of re-confirming a diagnosis and treating it. First, it ensures regular contact with clinicians to monitor and manage chronic conditions, overall improving the quality of care. […]
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The Overlooked ROI: Redaction, Chart-Linking, and CMS Penalty Avoidance
Using a workflow enabled by technology that enables, and actively supports, both additions and redaction (deletion), isn’t just easy and cost effective, it has value beyond its intrinsic ROI. Chris Gluhak explains the importance of eliminating inaccurate codes while looking for potential additions to avoid CMS penalties in audits.
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Risk Adjustment and Telehealth Policy under COVID-19
Health Fidelity offers conclusions on the flurry of CDC and CMS telehealth policy updates around coding and risk adjustment practices under COVID-19
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3 Takeaways to Look for at RISE West
If compliance is a key priority for your organization, we’ve put together a brief “playbook” of the areas we recommend you explore during your 2017 RISE West Summit trip.
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How Technology Can Help Ensure the Utmost Compliance in Your Risk Adjustment
Teresa Ross discusses the buzz around compliance in risk adjustment. Find out how technology-enabled solutions can help achieve the utmost compliance in an efficient and effective manner.
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Are You Overestimating Risk Scores? Understanding Compliance and Penalties
Overlooking missed diagnoses is just half of the challenge of attaining accurate risk scores. Learn how solve the other half by applying technology to help with compliance in this post from Health Fidelity Director of Coding & Quality, Kathy Ormsby.
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Risk Adjustment Compliance and RADV Audits
Compliance in medicare advantage risk adjustment practices is receiving increased scrutiny. To better prepare for RADV audits, many payers and providers are turning to technology to more accurately capture their risk. Learn more about how you can leverage technology to capture risk accurately in our blog.
