is not documented to validate the diagnosis, the diagnosis will be rejected by CMS due to the lack of evidence by provider. For medico-legal purposes, complete documentation provides evidence of a diagnosis, that is, “if it was not documented, it does not exist”.įor success with documentation, clinicians should make sure it adheres to M.E.A.T. These four factors help providers to establish the presence of a diagnosis during an encounter and ensure proper documentation. Treat-medications, therapies, other modalities.Assess/Address-ordering tests, discussion, review records, counseling.Evaluate-test results, medication effectiveness, response to treatment.Monitor-signs, symptoms, disease progression, disease regression.is at the heart of HCC coding and clinical documentation and is defined as follows: stands for: M-monitoring, E-evaluating, A-assessing, and T-treatment. For this, documentation should indicate the diagnoses being monitored, evaluated, assessed/addressed, or treated (M.E.A.T.). ![]() One of the most critical and basic requirements is proper documentation of the diagnosis to capture the most accurate HCC code. To stay compliant and mitigate risk of audits, healthcare providers must be well aware of the essentials that should be present in the medical record. In both cases, the code would be considered invalid or discrepant. Any change in the HCC could mean that the provider is receiving too much or too little revenue. Submitting an inaccurate diagnosis or a diagnosis resulting in a different HCC poses a major compliance risk and will lead to payment recovery to Medicare. To this end, CMS targets health plans with both random and targeted audits to confirm validity of diagnoses submitted. Medicare wants payments to CMS-accepted organizations to be in line with the expected cost of care. Proper HCC coding and documentation is critical for health care providers participating in risk-adjusted market of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), Medicare’s Hospital Value Based Program (HVBP), or Medicare Advantage (MA). ![]() The Risk Adjustment process identifies patients who are more costly to care for based on the diagnosis codes billed for the patient in the previous review period. Patients with HCC conditions require more resources and disease intervention. Costly chronic conditions of ICD-10-CM have been classified by CMS into Hierarchical Conditional Categories (HCCs).
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