Annual Leadership Institute August 25, Triple Check: A Process for Preventing False Claims

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1 Annual Leadership Institute August 25, 2016 Triple Check: A Process for Preventing False Claims 1

2 Your presenter today is: Sophie A. Campbell, MSN, RN, CRRN, RAC-CT, CNDLTC Director, Clinical Advisory Services Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP 2

3 Learning Objectives 1. Identify the items that are included in the claim for billing services 2. Identify the team members who should be included in the Triple Check process 3. Identify the steps to an effective Triple Check process 3

4 What should be included in the process? UB-04 claim MDS assessment OCD-10 diagnosis list Medical record documentation - Rehabilitation therapy - Nursing Medicare certifications/recertifications Medicare Secondary Payor forms 4

5 Why is Triple Check important? 1. Residents receive the benefits they are entitled to 2. Accurate billing for skilled services provided 3. Prevention of False Claims submission 4. Reduction of denied or adjusted claims/reimbursement 5. Correct data reported for the facility 6. Clinical and financial data should correlate 7. Support documentation is identified early 5

6 Residents Receive the Benefits They are Entitled to Protecting Medicare Were there other payors? Is Medicare the primary/first payor? Were technical eligibility criteria met? Ensuring utilization of skilled services from admission through stay and at discharge Can the skilled services be identified based on Prospective Payment System (PPS) criteria? 6

7 Accurate Billing for Skilled Services Focus has increased on the billing Less than 50% of appeals are being overturned and the time it takes to reach the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) has increased Provider needs reimbursement for daily operations Should receive reimbursement for delivered services Reimbursement should represent the level of care and service provided 7

8 Prevention of False Claims Submission Increased focus on false claims Elements of false claims include that the defendant: (1) Submit a claim (or cause a claim to be submitted) (2) To the Government (3) That is false or fraudulent (4) Knowing of its falsity (5) Seeking payment from the Federal treasury (6) Damages Health care violations that can lead to a false claim include: A) Upcoding and B) Unnecessary services 8

9 Prevention of False Claims Submission CMS, external audit and OIG focus on rehabilitation therapy - Most recent actions have focused on rehabilitation services - Settlements have been significant - Specific and all regulatory requirements must be met False Claims information: - Look back period 6 years - Identification providers must exercise diligence in auditing - Investigation 60 day clock to report which starts after full identification which can take no more than 6 months 9

10 Reduction of Denied or Adjusted Claims/Reimbursement Multiple external audits possible - Additional Documentation/Development Requests (ADR) - Recovery Auditors (used to be RACs) - Zone Program Integrity Contracts (ZPICs) - Error Rate testing (CERT reviews) - Managed care audits - Default rates and provider liability days - Trends identified that could result in federal audit 10

11 Correct Data Reported for the Facility Represented in the many data mining reports that are available through various government agencies, such as the PEPPER reports New Quality Measures that are collected from the claims data submitted including: - Percentage of short stay residents who were successfully discharged to the community - Percentage of short stay residents who have had an outpatient emergency department visit - Percentage of short stay residents who were re-hospitalized after a nursing home admission 11

12 Clinical and Financial Data Should Correlate Clinical information includes: - Daily skilled nursing and rehabilitation therapy services - MDS assessment data Financial information includes: - UB-04 claim data such as admission date, occurrence date - Billing dates Correlating dates: - Assessment reference dates - Admission and discharge dates - Leave of absence days - Hospital stay dates 12

13 Support Documentation is Identified Early Rehabilitation treatment days and minutes of service Respiratory therapy minutes resulting in days Medical diagnosis documentation and support Clinical service documentation and support for the rationale Reasonableness and necessity clearly noted and supported RAI Manual instructions for prerequisites met Regulatory requirements adhered to and noted Identify before external auditors identify 13

14 Who Should be Part of Triple Check? Required team members include: - Business/billing office representative - Rehabilitation therapy representative - Assessment nurse representative Additional team members who would be helpful - Clinical team member clinical manager, DON/ADON - Administration team member administrator, COO or other operational manager 14

15 Effective and Efficient Triple Check Meetings should begin on time and be consistent with date and time and location Meeting participants should come prepared - Pre-meeting work completed - Bring specific items If using a billing company don t involve until step 2 Reduce or eliminate social conversations 15

16 Effective and Efficient Triple Check Business/billing office items for the Triple Check include: - UB-04 claims for month being billed - Should be reviewed for accuracy with: - Bill type - Admission and occurrence dates - Correct payor(s) - Resident data: name, social security and Medicare numbers - Facility information 16

17 Effective and Efficient Triple Check Clinical or assessment nurse items for the Triple Check include: - MDS assessments with RUG levels - Final validation reports - Physician certifications/recertifications - ICD-10CM diagnosis lists sequenced - Knowledge of or list of skilled services provided - Supporting medical record documentation 17

18 Effective and Efficient Triple Check Rehabilitation Therapy items for the Triple Check include: - Rehabilitation treatment/service logs - Rehabilitation Plans of Care - Physician orders for rehabilitation services - Rehabilitation therapy start and end dates - Rehabilitation support documentation for reasonableness and necessity 18

19 Effective and Efficient Triple Check Other items that can be evaluated during the process: - Medicare Secondary Payor forms completion - NOMNC timeliness - Census data - Reconciliation of external vendor billing including laboratory, radiology, pharmacy and rehabilitation therapy 19

20 Effective and Efficient Triple Check Items to evaluate: starting with the claim - Beneficiaries name, date of birth, Medicare and social security numbers - Bill type (FL 04) - Admission date (FL 12) - Occurrence span: qualifying hospital stay dates (FL 35-36) - Correct payor (FL 50) - From and through dates of claim: billing period (FL 06) - Revenue codes: SNF PPS or therapy discipline codes (FL 42) 20

21 Effective and Efficient Triple Check Items to evaluate: staring with the claim - Admitting, primary and secondary diagnoses (FL 67 then a-q) - Correlate to diagnosis list in EMR, section I of MDS assessment, MD admission history and physical, MD progress notes, MD orders and therapy Plans of Care - HIPPS code (FL 45) - Correlate to RUG level from section Z of MDS assessment, final validation report and Assessment Indicator from MDS - Covered days per MDS assessment or service units (FL 46) - From the days covered by each MDS assessment on claim 21

22 Effective and Efficient Triple Check Items to evaluate: looking at the MDS assessment - Assessment Reference Date (ARD) within allowable time frame for type of assessment - Off cycle MDS assessments completed as needed based on resident progression of services - Skilled services coded on MDS assessments - Correlate section O rehabilitation therapy days and minutes with the rehabilitation treatment/service logs 22

23 Effective and Efficient Triple Check Items to evaluate: checking rehabilitation therapy - Each treating discipline should have a Plan of Care - POC should be signed by timely by MD - Each treating discipline should have MD orders for evaluation and treatment - Review number of minutes documented per day on the treatment/service logs 23

24 Effective and Efficient Triple Check Items to evaluate: support for billed skilled services - Skilled services are documented in the medical record - Reasonableness and necessity are identified - Regulatory requirements have been met for timeliness and support for coding of the MDS assessment items 24

25 Effective and Efficient Triple Check Complete Triple Check process a few days before transmitting claims to allow time for checking on questions and correcting any errors that can be corrected Ensures timely submission of claims Ensures clean claims Improves reimbursement timeliness and accuracy Reduces potential for audit or at least recoup of reimbursement 25

26 Why Should Triple Check be Completed? Medicare provider agreement that requires providers to bill accurately and be compliant with the regulations whether Medicare or any of the other external agencies audit you or not Report errors, Correct errors and Educate to prevent future errors 26

27 Why Should Triple Check be Completed? Triple Check process is a system of internal audits Document these results as findings Include Triple Check process findings as part of internal audit findings in QAPI (Quality Assurance Performance Improvement) process Consider external audit process to validate 27

28 Compliance is simply following the rules Ethics is choosing to do so 28

29 QUESTIONS? 29

30 THANK YOU! 30

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