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A comprehensive overview of risk adjustment data elements and models, including definitions, types, and examples. It covers key concepts such as risk adjustment factors, hierarchical condition categories (hccs), and the role of risk adjustment in healthcare payment systems. The document also includes a series of questions and answers related to risk adjustment, making it a valuable resource for students and professionals in the healthcare field.
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Risk Adjustment Data Element - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Age, Gende, Socioeconomic status, Disability status, Insurance status(Medicaid, dual-eligible,) Claims data elements such as procedure codes, place of service codes, special patient-specific conditions hospice, ESRD RAF - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Risk Adjustment Factor Scores Three main types of reviews - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Retrospective, Concurrent and prospective Retrospective - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔reviews are performed after the information has been reported and in risk adjustment these are prior years dos Concurrent reviews - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔performed ongoing as patients are seen prior to reporting and in risk adjustment the current year Prospective reviews - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔will effect the next year and not the current year where payment is concerned. They are used to forcast
Types of Risk Adjustment Models(HHS) - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔HHS hEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES hIERARCHICAL CONDITION(Commercial, individual and small grooup Types of Risk Adjustment Modles(CDPS) - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Chronic Illness and Disability payment systems(Medicaid) Types of Risk Adjustment Models(HCC-C) - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Hierarchical Condition Category, Part C Types of Risk Adjustment model (DRG) - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Diagnosis Related Group (Inpatient) Types of Risk Adjustment model (ACG) - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Adjusted Clinical Groups(Outpatient) Prescription based program risk adjustment examples:UCSD - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Medicaid Rx(UCSD) Prescription based program risk adjustment examples(Dxcg) - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔RxGroups(DxCG) Prescription based program risk adjustment examples(HCC-D) - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Hierarchical Condition Category, Part D(HCC-D
malunion fracture - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a healed fracture in a undesirable position resulting in a deformity or crooked limb. nonunion fracture - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔fracture is not healing New bone tissure is not growing to bridge the gap between the broken bones FFS Normalization adjustment - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔CMS payments are based on a population with an average risk score Special population for normalization factores - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Pace Mode, ESRD and Part D History of CDPS - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Began using RA in 1996 utilizing claims from disabled beneficiaries information from the disability payment system from Colorado, Michiganm Missouri, New York, and Ohio Star Ratings - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Medicare Advantage plan would received a bonus if they receive 4 or more stars in 5 star quality ratings 5 star - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Excellent performance 4 star - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Above Average Performance
3 star - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔average performance 2 star - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Below average performance 1 star - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Poor Performance Part C Plan - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Domain 1 Staying Helathy Screenings, test, and vaccines (7 measures Domain 2 Managing Chronic (Long Term) Conditions (12Measures) Domain 3 Member Experience with Health Plan (6 measures) Domain 4: Member complaints, problems getting service and improvement in the Health Plan's Performance (4 measures) Domain 5 Health Plan customer service (3 measures Part D Plans - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Domain 1Drug plan customer service (3 measures) Domain 2 Member Complaints, Problems Getting Services, and improvement in the Drug Plan's Performance (4 measures) Domain 3 Member Experience with Drug Plan (2 measures) Domain 4 Patient afety and drug pricing (6measures) Star Rating penalize - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔when plans are not obtaining four stars or better
Major Reason for RA - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔To identify all current diagnoses to highest specificity. Annual RA Audits - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔CMS conducts audits of the risk adjustment data submitted by or on behalf of health plans to ensure program integrity Error in RA Audits - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔once error determine will then be applied to the premiums for the entire patient population for that health plan RADV(Risk Adustment Data Validation) - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔CMS identifies a random stratified sample of patients audit. Only Part C HCC'S are audited in a RADV RADV submission - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔must submit up to five best recrods demonstrating diagnoses as current in year being audited and support the HCC values Two types of RADV audit - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔National Radv audit and Targeted RADV National RADV audit - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Selection of patients using a stratfied sample metholology, where a percentage of patients are selected randomly from high risk, medium risk, and low risk based on HCC risk scores Selection of MA plan and/or contracts is random
Targeted RADV audit - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Targeted contract of those who have had problematic past audit findings plans with higher risk scores when compared to traditional FFS(Fee-For-Service Medicare) HHS RADV - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔identifes a similar sample of patients, however the dos only come from those that were submitted on claims through the edge servers IVA - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Initial Validation Auditor that reviews the sample to identify DOS that support HCC'S(through diagnosis codes) IVA process - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔is typicall summer and fall months winter and fall months are SVA(Secondary Validation Auditor Differences between the CMS RADV AND HHS HRADV - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔cms RADV is typically 2-3 years after payment, while HHS HRADV is typically 6 months after year end Differences between the CMS RADV and HHS HRADV - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔CMS RADV allows for any face to face encounter by an approved provider to be subitted for audit support while HHC HRADV only allows DOS that were submitted on t he edge server.
Value of an Invalid HCC - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔extrapolated across the entire plan population ($350 x 1,500) code a proper vascular ulcer - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔must have the location and type Pancreatic islet - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Produces Blood Sugar HEDIS 2 - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Is not a division of Medicare and Medicaid Organ - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Multiple tissue types formed together a specific function for the body Organ System - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A collection of body parts depending on one another to achieve a mutual objective