CHAA Examination Preparation

1. CHAA Examination Preparation Future Development – Session I Pages 104-113 University of Mississippi Medical Center

2. What to Expect… • This module covers various aspects of Patient Access knowledge found in pages 104-113 of the FUTURE DEVELOPMENT section of the 2010 CHAA Study Guide. • A quiz at the end will measure your understanding of the content covered.

3. Billing Problems • For most hospitals, the #1 reason claims are rejected or denied is: INACCURATE DATA ENTERED DURING REGISTRATION • Therefore, patient access staff must focus on getting the CRITICAL DATA ELEMENTS (CDEs) correct when collecting information from the patient.

4. Critical Data Elements The most common CDE mistakes include: • Patient name on claim not matching patient name on file with payer • Incorrect or missing Member ID • Claim submitted to wrong payer (e.g. traditional Medicaid versus Medicaid HMO) • Incorrect address • Missing or incorrect phone numbers • Missing pre-cert/authorization/referral information needed in order to submit claim

5. The Importance of CDEs • Confirming this information has been collected and is correct at the time of registration eliminates: • DOWNSTREAM issues associated with billing payers • Problems in collecting liability from patients CDEs = $$$,$$$,$$$

6. Data Integrity • Data Integrity refers to the process of ensuring that data is: • CONSISTENT and CORRECT • According to CHAA, your PRIMARY ROLE IS: • is to create a basis of the medical record by capturing specificinformation prior to the patient’s encounter at the point of entry into the healthcare system.

7. Types of Data • You gather Administrative and Clinical Data: • Clinical Data = Medical Related Information • Administrative Data = Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Financial data • The two most COMMON DATA ELEMENTS used throughout the healthcare experience are: • Legal Name and Date of Birth

8. Data Storage and Retrieval • The main REPOSITORY (virtual storehouse/closet) used in patient access is the : • Admission, Discharge, Transfer (ADT) • The primary Patient Tracking Link considered to be the most important resource in the healthcare facility is the: • Master Patient Index (MPI)

9. Importance of the MPI • How does proper use of the MPI serve the patient and the hospital? • Links patient being registered for care with existing medical records (if possible). • Improves patient safety by increasing the chance of proper patient identification. • It increases the ability of the hospital to obtain payment for services by properly identifying the patient.

10. What to Know about Physician’s Orders Components of a valid physician order are: • Patient Name • Date • Diagnosis, signs, or symptoms • Test or therapy ordered (Procedure) • Physician’s signature It must be LEGIBLY written.

11. Data Integrity – Quality Assurance • Ensuring the accuracy of registration data collected results in fewer denials, rejected claims, and other delays. • Facilities use INTERNAL AUDITING in order to gain a SNAP-SHOT of the results produced by current processes. UMHC’s auditing process is called: • AccuReg

12. Data Accuracy – Quality Assurance • Data obtained from the audit is used to implement performance improvement initiatives designed to meet the revenue cycle goals of: • Reducing Accounts Receivable (A/R) • Improving Cash Flow Quality Assurance is ensuring a certain standard is consistently met.

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14. Quality Assurance &Customer Service • According to a Press-Ganey Survey, “Satisfied Patients Become Loyal Patients.” • Satisfaction depends on: • Wait times, proper room and food temperature, technical competence, protection of privacy, friendliness and courteousness of staff, etc. • Compassion is as significant as Competence.

15. Evaluating Customer Satisfaction • Passive Customer Feedback • Letters from patients and families • Conversations with patients/families • Active Customer Feedback • Customer Surveys • Customer Comment Cards • Customer Callback Programs “Surveys are the BEST method to find out if a customer is satisfied.”

16. Using Survey Results • Positive Feedback: • Provides an opportunity for positive employee engagement and also helps gain market share (customers). • Negative Feedback: • Provides an opportunity to apply quality improvement principles in an effort to respond to the feedback with service recovery efforts.

17. The Power of Surveys • Healthcare organizations are starting to PUBLISH results. • Insurance companies are moving toward reimbursing treatment at facilities that meet or exceed a certain level of performance benchmark. • Surveys are also used INTERNALLY within individual organizations to measure employee/staff satisfaction.

18. When Creating a Customer Satisfaction Survey… You MUST DETERMINE: • What data measurements are required? • Face to face survey, telephone, email, comment card, etc. • What data measures are important to the organization’s decision making process? • Patient wait time, compassionate staff, food/room temperature, etc. • What data measures are important in the day to day management? • What are the factors that will keep customers coming back?

19. Quality Improvement • Quality Assurance is ensuring a certain standard is consistently met. • QUALITY IMPROVEMENT is best described by Lexus: • “The Relentless Pursuit of Perfection.” • It’s a never ending cycle of: Collecting Data Analyzing Data Taking Action Evaluating Results

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21. The Joint Commission • TJC REQUIRES healthcare organizations to IDENTIFY and REPORT on quality improvement initiatives. • TJC defines QUALITY CONTROL as the performance processes through which actual performance is measured and compared with goals, and the difference is acted on.

22. The Joint Commission • TJC defines QUALITY IMPROVEMENT as an approach to the continuous study and improvement of providing health care services to meet the needs of individuals and others. • TJC defines PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT as the continuous study and adaptation of a health care organization’s functions and processes to increase the probability of achieving desired outcomes.