mayo clinic in the midwest experience - acdis 10...•pilot projects within our destination...
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This is the Full Title of a SessionJames Manz, M.D. CCDS-OConsultant in Spine & Neurological SurgeryMedical Director Mayo Enterprise Outpatient Clinical Documentation Integrity ProgramMayo Clinic Health SystemEau Claire, Wisconsin
Mayo Clinic in the Midwest ExperienceImplementation of an Outpatient Clinical Documentation Integrity (OCDI) Program
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Learning Objectives
• At the completion of this educational activity, the learner will be able to:
– Develop a structure to manage outpatient CDI in multiple physician practices across a geographically widespread organization
– Implement a back-end documentation review process
– Organize educational support and technology enhancement to assist in provider engagement
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Mayo Clinic in the Midwest Experience
• Strategy
• Structure
• EMR/EPIC enhancements
• Assessing Performance: Metrics
• Future
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Our Burning Platform to Start OCDI Program
• Significant financial impact related to a single ACA (HHS model) plan
• Impact affected two regions in one state
• External consultant identified we underperformed compared to the rest of the state
• Pilot to address started in mid 2017 (with uncoordinated efforts prior to that)
• Success of pilot used as foundation to expand to include all 5 regions in Mayo Clinic in the Midwest
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Our Burning Platform to Start OCDI Program
• Increasing number of contracts with payers that are risk based
– Currently involved in 27 risk based contracts
– Multiple models: HCC, HHS, CDPS and ACG
– Increasing risk exposure to performance with time
– Payers need to be price competitive—if they price themselves out of the market, we lose patient volumes
• Entered ACO (Basic Track) this summer
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Our Burning Platform to Start OCDI Program
• BPCI-A engagement at two of the five regional sites
– Inpatient/Outpatient Percutaneous Coronary Interventions
– Congestive Heart Failure
– Major Joint Replacement of the Lower Extremity
• Outpatient denials based on documentation and supporting codes
• Practice request on E&M, Transitional Care Management (TCM) and Chronic Care Management (CCM) coding education & assist
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Initial Scope of our Work: Ambulatory Office Setting
• Service lines most immediately impactful resided in primary care
• Highest volume of encounters tied to patients impacted by risk models
• Family Medicine>Internal Medicine>>Pediatrics
• Patients are paneled, so data could more readily be attributed (provider, location, and region)
• Population Health already engaged with ACO application and awareness of impact—a willing partner
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Not in Direct Scope of our Work
• Inpatient CDI/Coding
– Separate group and longer historic footprint across Enterprise
– Close working relationship
– Encoder flags conditions that are HCC
– In scope for CDI work, many that are not CC/MCC impact mortality metrics and hospital rankings in US News & World Report
– All coding staff trained in HCC risk adjusted coding
• Emergency Department—external contracted coding
• Observation hospital encounters
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OCDI Team
• Practice engagement
– Regional physician advisors
– Location Champions—additional admin time to support effort, bring performance metrics back to their locations
– Primary care providers—15 minute weekly commitment
• CDS/CDI front facing staff—at the elbow support
• Backend secondary coding review of risk based encounters—risk adjusted trained coders
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Goals
• Distill the volume of information into manageable pieces
• Focus on what is most impactful
• Educate provider staff on Mayo enhanced EPIC tools built to help in this space
• Establish a resource structure to help/support/educate
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EPIC/Payers/Other• Data• Webinars/CEU’s• Targeted education
Backend Reviews• Add/modify/remove
details• Targeted education
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Regional Champions
Region 1 17
Region 2 15
Region 3
16
Region 4
7
Region 5
8Provider
Champions
Total 63
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CDS/CDI Resource
Region 1
CDS/CDI 1
CDS/CDI 2
CDS/CDI 3
CDS/CDI 4
CDS/CDI 5
CDS/CDI 6
Region 2
CDS/CDI 1
CDS/CDI 2
CDS/CDI 3
CDS/CDI 4
CDS/CDI 5
CDS/CDI 6
Region 3
CDS/CDI 1
CDS/CDI 2
CDS/CDI 3
CDS/CDI 4
CDS/CDI 5
CDS/CDI 6
Region 4
CDS/CDI 1
CDS/CDI 2
CDS/CDI 3
CDS/CDI 4
CDS/CDI 5
CDS/CDI 6
Region 5*
CDS/CDI 1
CDS/CDI 2
CDS/CDI 3
Shared
Shared
Shared
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Primary Care Providers Per Region
Region 1 140
Region 2 134
Region 3
118
Region 4
125
Region 5
194Primary Care
Providers
Total 711
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CDS/CDI & Provider Touchpoint Meetings
• 15 minute weekly meeting (‘at the elbow’) Face to Face (F2F)
• Compliance tracked and reported to Primary Care Leadership
• Average number of providers covered per CDS/CDI: 22
• Customized EMR profile to mimic what providers ‘see’
• Established job description and work competency expectations
• Expected to achieve CCDS-O within 3 years
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CDS/CDI & Provider Touchpoint Meetings
• Core provider focused support:– EPIC functionality, tips & tricks, personalization to optimize work
– Pre-reviews for upcoming risk contract based encounters
• Re-capture of known ‘dropped conditions’/gaps
• Identification of previously documented but not coded (captured) risk opportunities
– Post-review feedback on codes added/modified/or removed on backend review
– Disease focus: Diabetes Problem List (PL) accuracy and clean up
– Documentation tips
– Personal performance metrics
– Use of OCDI SharePoint site
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OCDI Back End Coding Review
• Back end work queues stop qualifying risk impacted ambulatory encounters for secondary review
• Not E&M validation
• Assess accuracy of self selected codes by providers and opportunity for additional risk capture
• Code details of what was added, modified and/or removed recorded to identify opportunities to improve
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OCDI Back End Coding Review
• Filtering of high volume
– Service line inclusion: Primary Care, Oncology and Cardiology
– Focus on encounters with known dropped conditions/gaps
• Queues emptied at end of day—minimize accounts receivable
• Specific job description and expectations created
• Expected to obtain CRC or CCDS-O within 3 years
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Educational Support
• Monthly Provider Champion/OCDI Team Meeting
– Disease focus
– EPIC/EMR functionality, tips & tricks
– Metrics/performance review
– Expectation that champions bring information back to location at future department meeting—dispersion of information with consistent messaging
– Video taped & archived with slide decks on OCDI website (SharePoint)
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Educational Support
• Enterprise SharePoint OCDI Site
– Education calendar
• Monthly champion meetings
• Third party webinars (Optum, BCBS, Humana)
– Electronic references (PDF)
• Internal and third party disease focus and coding guideline references
• HEDIS (Healthcare Effectiveness Data & Information Set) and other quality measure guidelines
– Answers to questions from staff/providers are collated and housed on website under FAQ section
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Mayo OCDI SharePoint Site
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Mayo OCDI SharePoint Site
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Mayo OCDI SharePoint Site
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EMR Enhancements
• EPIC is our platform—anyone on EPIC will have some ability to adopt
• Mayo opted for own internal terminology (Mayo Clinic Problem List—MCPL) for diagnoses codes instead of Intelligent Medical Objects (IMO)
• That allowed us to adapt existing EPIC tools
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Visual Flag That Condition is Risk Adjusted
• MCPL terms mapped to an ICD-10-CM code with risk adjustment will include “(HCC)”
• Search results:
• Selection via Diagnoses Calculator:
• Problem List results:
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Visual Flag That Condition is Risk Adjusted
• Column indicates diagnosis is risk adjusted
• Opted to just display “HCC” and not category number or risk impact
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Diagnoses Calculator
• Designed to allow providers to choose generic and get specific
• EPIC functionality, but Mayo specific build
• Clinical ‘language’ can be used on decision lines to drive to ICD 10 CM Code/Description
• All can be found by typing ‘nos’ (trigger letters) in any of the diagnoses/problem list search windows
• Work from top down
• “Go to Green”—we force provider to complete, don’t allow unspecified laterality*
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Diagnoses Calculator
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“Go to Green”
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If you don’t know for sure…
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Prompt for Additional Pertinent Codes
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Smart Text: Poor Man’s Encoder
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Comorbidity Preference List
• Available to all providers—ambulatory or hospital setting
• Each condition triggers a Diagnoses Calculator
• Most have risk impact (CC, MCC, and/or HCC)
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Comorbidity Preference List
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Leverage Common Diagnoses/Speed Buttons
• Opportunity to improve what was originally selected by practice
• Often choices are symptoms and not conditions
• Easy to pick = high likelihood of being used
• Can be centrally built and launched across a defined service line
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HCC Code Review and Best Practice Advisory (BPA)
• Points to conditions that were either billed in the past and/or risk adjusted terms on the Problem List that haven’t been captured in current billing cycle (akin to dropped condition/gap)
• Is actionable—you can add diagnosis to encounter and/or PL, remove, resolve directly
• Conditions in acute categories (20/83) are excluded: respiratory arrest, stroke, acute renal failure, sepsis, etc.
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HCC Code Review and Best Practice Advisory (BPA)
• Indicator on provider patient list flags the encounter
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HCC Code Review and Best Practice Advisory (BPA)
• Repositioned (taken out of standard BPA location to be more in line with workflow)
• Highlighted to stand out, positioned between PL and Visit Diagnosis
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HCC Code Review and Best Practice Advisory (BPA)
• Customization is possible
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HCC Code Review and Best Practice Advisory (BPA)
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Smart Phrase to Document the “Magic Words”
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Smart Phrase to Document the “Magic Words”
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Assessing Performance
• Top HCC categories
• Diabetes Coding with & without chronic complication/month
• EPIC HCC Code Review BPA usage by month
• Gap (dropped condition) Closure/month
• Add/Remove or Modify percent, rolling 3 months
• Risk plan performance (quarterly)
• ACOPerformance information significantly lags efforts
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Assessing Productivity & Engagement
• Provider engagement
• Backend coding impact
• Risk queue coverage
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Impact
• Significant improvement in our ACA plan performance
– Team instrumental in condition validation for ACA RADV audit on 2017 billing year
• Commercial payer assessments show significant improvement across the board
• ACO data will bring further clarity, but expected to be significantly delayed
• Opportunity exists in office CPT/visit billing
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Future Direction
• Recent expansion into last region, increasing direct provider coverage to over 700
• Pilot projects within our destination practices (MCR, MCF and MCA)
• Move to targeted specialty practices (2020)
– Hematology/Oncology
– Cardiovascular Medicine
• Expansion into E&M/TCM/CCM encounter coding (2020)
– 3rd party tool used in conjunction with Compliance and Medicare Strategy Unit to ensure accuracy and minimize risk
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Future Direction
• Potential supplemental revenue stream through payer partnerships to offset staffing costs: Provider Assessment Form (PAF)
• Development of coordinated process with the practice for ‘dropped patients’ (patients with dropped conditions/gaps and no completed or scheduled appointments for the year)
– Practice ensures visit is secured, team supports with pre-review to help facilitate accurate condition reporting
– Use of Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) to encourage patient participation
– Future pro-active year round AWV initiative to minimize number of at risk patients remaining at end of year
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Future Direction
• Pilot Study of use of AI/NLP tool dedicated to this space
– Potential for end to end integration with current EPIC/billing systems
– Current pre-review and post-encounter review workflows fit well with the application
– Real time provider facing prompts about potential conditions and adequacy of documentation to support
– Ability for direct provider communication via Enterprise dictation platform with OCDI staff
– Limited currently to single risk model (HCC)
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Thank you. Questions?
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