Risk Adjustment: Determining Risk Determines Reward
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Risk AdjustmentWhat is it?
Methodology accounting for known and/or discovered health data elements and levels comparisons of wellness among patients.
Used as a method to evaluate all patients on an equal scale.
Determining Factors
Risk adjustment modules utilize diagnosis codes to determine potential patient level risks.
• Age• Gender• Socioeconomic Status• Disability Status• Insurance status
- Medicare- Medicaid,- Dual-eligible, etc.
• Claims data elements such as procedure codes, place of service codes, etc.
• Special patient-specific conditions (enrolled in hospice or being an ESRD patient)
ADDITIONAL ELEMENTS
Risk Adjustment Modules
Diagnosis based programs
HHSHealth and Human Services
Hierarchical Condition Category
CDPSChronic Illness and Disability
Payment Systems
HCC-CHierarchical Condition
Category, Part C
DRGDiagnosis Related Groups
ACGAdjusted Clinical Groups
H H CMedicare
Hierarchal Condition Categories
• Model used by MA plans
• Takes ICD codes and filters them into Diagnosis Groups, then into Condition Categories
• Assigns a value to each diagnosis code in the model
• Each diagnosis code carries a Risk Adjustment Factor
How does Risk Adjustment Affect You?• Physicians will treat patients on plans
funded through RA models
• Plans expect providers to document and code diagnoses correctly
• Physician documentation and coding establishes the complexity and workload of patient panels
• Documentation and diagnoses become the basis for funding and reimbursement
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How is the risk (RAF) score developed?
Each patient has a RAF score made of: Baseline demographic elements (age/sex and dual eligibility status) Incremental increases based on HCC diagnoses submitted on claims from face-to-face encounters with qualified practitioners during the
calendar year
HCC coding is prospective in nature: The work you do in this year sets the RAF and subsequent funding for next year
All models include chronic conditions that do not change from year to year:Diabetes, COPD, CHF, Atrial-Fib, MS, Parkinson’s, Chronic Hepatitis
Correct Coding
• Adherence to ICD-10 guidelines is required under HIPAA
• Documentation must show condition was monitored, evaluated, assessed, or treated (MEAT)
• A diagnosis code may only be reported if it is explicitly spelled out in the medical record
• No coding from problem lists, super bills, or medical history
Treatment is prima facia evidence of a diagnosis—if you are treating, it exists
MEAT the Chronic Condition
Monitor
Signs Symptoms
Disease progression Disease regression
Evaluate
Test results Medication effectiveness Response to treatment
Assess
Ordering tests Discussion
Review records Counseling
Treat
MedicationsTherapies
Other modalities
M E A T
HCC Financial Differences in Coding Specificity
Risk Adjustment Data Validation
• CMS identifies a random stratified sample of patients to audit.
• Only Part C HCCs are audited in a RADV.
• Health plans must submit up to five best records demonstrating diagnoses that support the HCC values paid as current in the year being audited.
• Supplemental diagnoses (those not originally submitted via claims) may be approved if they are documented as current diagnoses in the record.
• E submission of all diagnoses (with HCCs) are cumulative, so there may be a negative or positive financial outcome overall in such an audit.
Health and Human ServicesHCC Model
• Section 1343 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) calls for a risk adjustment model. Health and Human Services (HHS) created a risk adjustment model based on the HCC classification system; however this model was developed using commercial claims.
• The hierarchical grouping logic is similar to the Medicare methodology, but HHS selected a different set of HCCs for the federal risk adjustment methodology to reflect the population differences.
• Patients are grouped in this model by age (adult,child,infant) and by metal (platinum, gold, silver, and bronze).
• This plan does not currently review prescription-based diagnoses such as those found in the HCC-D used by Medicare.
ACA Plan
ACA Plan Category The insurance company pays
The patient pays
Platinum 90% 10%
Gold 80% 20%
Silver 70% 30%
Bronze 60% 40%
Catastrophic Less than 60% More than 40%
Medicaid Chronic Illness and Disability
Payment System (CDPS)• In the Medicaid Chronic Illness and Disability Payment System (CDPS)
risk adjustment model, there are far more diagnosis codes identified than are included in the Medicare HCC model
• While these CDPS diagnoses also carry a numeric value for risk, they are also rated as “high,” “medium,” and “low” risk overall.
• This rating is used in hierarchal value setting. Where low is trumped by medium and medium is trumped by high.
• Uses data from both claims and Medicaid prescriptions (MRx)
Cardiovascular Category
CARVH3 Stage 1 groups 7 diagnoses
CARM 13 Stage 1 groups 53 diagnoses
CARL 26 Stage 1 groups 314 diagnoses
CAREL 2 Stage 1 groups 35 diagnoses
Four Levels
The suffix of the Cardiovascular Category (CAR) establishes its place in the hierarchy:
• VH (Very High) (weight 2.037): heart transplants, valves, etc.• M (Medium) (weight 0.805): heart attacks, etc.• L (Low) (weight 0.368): heart disease, etc.• EL (Extra Low): hypertension, etc.
Why is HCC Risk Adjustment Important ?
CMS RA Payment Schedule
MIPS and Risk Adjustment
HCC coding is the system that will be used for Risk Adjustment under MIPS.
At its core, diagnosis codes (ICD-10) are assigned a weight that measures patient acuity. Medicare expects that patients with higher HCC scores will consume more healthcare dollars and have worse outcomes.
If 60% of the MIPS score for providers is going to come from risk adjusted quality and resource use scores, it is critically important to accurately reflect the acuity of their patient population. Doing so will allow their quality and cost scores to accurately reflect the excellent care provided by physicians.
Your diagnosis coding is about to become much more important, both for immediate fee-for-service reimbursement and over the following two years as Medicare uses that diagnosis data for Risk Adjustment under MIPS.
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