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Today’s Presenter
Claire Wright
EDI Business Development
Claire Wright joined IDX/GE back in 2005 as an EDI Support Engineer. After several years, she
transitioned to a Centricity Practice Solution EDI Migration Project Manager where she worked very closely with new EDI customers and was a key point of contact for EDI product demonstrations. After many years as a Project Manager, Claire joined the EDI Business Development team in 2014 in order to continue her commitment to helping new customers grow their business. She works out
of the Burlington VT office – home of the EDI Data Center.
Product Overview: Denials IQ
Powerful algorithm analyzes claims data weekly to provide dashboards that reveal denial trends by code, payor, physician, location and a number of other categories, allowing the clinic to rework denials in bulk and set rules via HCM to prevent these denials in the future.
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Agenda• Hosted Claims Manager Benefits
• Workflow- where does it fit in
• Demo
• Reports
• Case Study
• DenialsIQ• Intro to DenialsIQ
• Dashboards
• Pattern Strengths
• Pattern Details
PREVENT
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Source: The Healthcare Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes: Workshop Series (2009)
The best way to REDUCE clinical rejections and denials is to PREVENTthem before they occur!
Hosted Claims Manager OverviewProven
• Proven, industry-leading clinical editing engine (including
LMRP/LCD)
• Includes over 4,000,000 pre-built rule combinations
Real time response
• Clinical edits are integrated into the approval process
Continuous improvement support model
• Regularly scheduled rejection and denial reviews are a key part
of service
Payer edits
• Edits can be created specific to your local payers guidelines
• Medicare LCD/NCD edits automatically updated bi-weekly for you
• Edits can be turned off if not needed
Submit
Correct
Scrub
Hosted Claims Manager: Features
Claim criteria
HCFA – 1500, Primary insurance, paper & electronic
Claim Scrubbing
Compares lines on the claim
Patient history scrubbing – current claim lines along with history
PQRS
Scrubbing will take place on measures you bill for
ICD-10 compatible
Scrubbing will take place on ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes
Clinical edits...What are they?
DLP Identifies items entered on one or more claims that have identical Dates of Services, Procedures , Modifiers,
Departments, and Providers (including previous claim history)
NPT Identifies where a new patient E&M was billed and the patient has been seen within 3 years by the same
organization and specialty
GFP Identifies an E&M that was billed during the global follow up period of an earlier procedure, has the same primary dx
and was performed by the same provider
NPD Identifies a line item that contains a diagnosis code that is not appropriate for use as a primary diagnosis code
LBI Identifies that no diagnosis on the claim line supports medical necessity for the procedure billed (as specified by
Local Medicare Guidelines)
MOD Identifies a line item that contains a modifier that is not permitted for use with a particular procedure code
MFD Identifies situations where you have exceeded the maximum allowed frequency for a given procedure within a given
date range
INJ Prompts you to add additional procedure code for if appropriate
www.CHORTHO.com
Located in
Tampa Bay Florida
Orthopaedic division at
All Children's Hospital
John Hopkins Medicine
Results with Hosted Claims Manager
Decreased claims rework by over 50%
Reduced or eliminated clinical denials
Helped speed payments by up to 22%
A customizable pre-claim clinical editing and proactive
claim analysis solution:
Helps increase revenue cycle efficiencies
Help improve claims accuracy
Assists with regulatory compliance
Outcomes1:
1. Representative results realized by Children’s Orthopaedic and Scoliosis Surgery Associates, St.
Petersburg, FL.
Reduce rejections before they occur
DenialsIQOverview
Title or Job Number | XX Month 201X See tutorial regarding
confidentiality disclosures.
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2% Denials write-offs
equaled of net patient
revenue
Re-working claims
cost per claim $15-25 An Advisory Board revenue cycle benchmark study reported that in 2013 76% of hospitals’, (in the report) denials write-offs to bad debt, equaled 2% of net patient
revenue.
How are denials impacting your performance?
2,000 denied claims = $50,000 34,000 denied claims =
$850,000
$4m NPR = $80k $45m NPR = $900k
A
NPR = Net Patient Revenue
Re-work cost = $25 per claim
DenialsIQ surfaces unseen patterns to help capture missed opportunities
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Imp
rove R
eve
nu
e
Reduce Cost
Our challenge was that the trends we were working took too long to define and usually didn’t pay off, even if we fixed them.
Jose Rivera
Corporate Director, Physician &
Professional Services
Orlando Health
Advanced statistical
algorithms from GE Global
Research identify patterns by root
cause factors
Refined by customers Using FastWorks methodology
with four customer partners and
built on Predix platform
GE’s revenue cycle
experience Serving customer for over 40
years, to help improve financial
performanceCost of rework – MGMA. Denials - The Advisory Board “Driving the Denials Management Initiative A Renewed Focus”
DenialsIQ identifies denials patterns through root cause factors and prioritizes based on value, providing powerful insights that drive action, without research
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DenialsIQ
Where are my most costly and unexpected denials patterns? How do I fix them more effectively?
A “pile” of denials, each with a reason 300 denials x 1
Trends queried based on experience, intuition
With Insights
“The stuff we don’t know
about.”
Patterns are identified automatically, can be resolved as a unit and
common themes provide context without research
Denia
l Facto
rs A
lgorith
m
Dynam
ic V
isualiz
atio
n Invoice Count
Denie
d C
harg
es
Level of unexpectedness
<
<
Traditional denial resolution approach
Improving performance with insights that translates into results
Dynamic visualizations
help prioritize
opportunities, to work
denials more quickly.
Defines pattern details and
root cause, to prevent
future occurrences.
Advanced dashboards
filter, monitor and report
performance over time
Leverages Centricity™ EDI data
Hosted by GE Healthcare
No installation cost
Data loads weekly
Results for last week, last month, and
current month to date
Requires Centricity EDI clearinghouse
DenialsIQ specifications and FAQ’s
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Dynamic visualizations display patternsColor indicates the rate of the
denials, i.e. red equals
denials that are occurring
more frequently than other
denials within the timeframe
Pattern #7
17 denials within pattern
$167k in denied charges
# of factors contributing to a
pattern; the common
reasons within the denial
pattern; i.e. location,
insurance, reason code
Tool tips display the specific
circumstances of the denial
pattern; i.e. Shelburne
Office, UHC, PR 27
Dynamic visualizations display patterns
#7
17/$167k
# of factors contributing to a
pattern
Algorithm results indicate
level of pattern
“unexpectedness”
Pattern #7
17 denials within pattern
$167k in denied charges
Think about it……
44Source: The Healthcare Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes: Workshop Series
(2009)
$25
Average cost per
claim for rework
DenialsIQ and Hosted Claims Manager
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Hosted Claims Manager is an ideal complementary solution to DenialsIQ, our advanced analytics
solution that uncovers unseen trends based on your claim denials.
Uncover coding patterns/denials in DenialsIQ then look to what can be resolved with Hosted Claims
Manager to prevent future denials and rework; thus creating a closed loop solution.
Pricing Overview:
Bundle #1:
Hosted Claims Manager and Denials IQ
Bundle #2:
CEDI Claims,Remit, Eligibility
43 % Savings
13 % Savings
Bundle #3:
Full CEDI Program
26 % Savings
>
Resources
• GE CEDI Information including case studies and brochures
For product questions and information:
For pricing details and questions about your current EDI tools: