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Title: March Madness – Coding Nightmares Session: W-6-1100

Title: March Madness – Coding Nightmares Session: W-6-1100. Objectives. Understand industry initiatives expediting the EHR Copy/Paste Functionality on the LEHR Recognize and Acknowledge HIM Leadership and Operational Challenges Identify Best Practices. Agenda. AHIMA Toolkit Overview

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Title: March Madness – Coding Nightmares Session: W-6-1100

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  1. Title: March Madness – Coding Nightmares Session: W-6-1100

  2. Objectives Understand industry initiatives expediting the EHR Copy/Paste Functionality on the LEHR Recognize and Acknowledge HIM Leadership and Operational Challenges Identify Best Practices

  3. Agenda AHIMA Toolkit Overview HIM Leadership with Copy/Paste Operational Management of Copy/Paste Issues Sample Exercise Question and Answers

  4. Toolkit Overview HIM professional responsibilities Ensure quality, timely and accurate documentation Sufficient knowledge of system capabilities Manage copy functionality

  5. Toolkit Overview Content Risks associated with functionality Inaccurate information Inability to identify author Inability to defend Appropriate use Stable over time Clearly distinguishable Is auditable

  6. Toolkit Overview Content Fraud and Abuse Billing Concerns Guidelines Reporting Clinical Trustworthiness Legal purposes Clinical purposes

  7. Toolkit Overview Content Education and Training Provider Training Risk Managers Legal Counsel HIM Staff

  8. HIM Leadership with Copy/Paste Are there alternatives to use of copy functionality? How do we ensure user competency? What copy functionality exists within the EHR including the ability to make corrections? What will be our process to mitigate and identify unacceptable uses? Who is going to enforce the policies?

  9. HIM Software Questions How are chart errors identified and corrected? What audit trails are available? Is copied information easily identified? Are blocks of content individually authenticated? How is re-authenticated information identified? How are source documents identified?

  10. HIM Understanding EHR Functionality Attributes of the copied material Limits within a patient record Correction functionality Output or view of the copied material Audit trial functionality Assignment of use

  11. HIM Leadership with Copy/Paste HIM Leadership to develop policies surrounding copy/paste HIM should be resource to understand payer concerns/rules re: copy/paste Partner with medical staff leaders to address issue

  12. HIM with Copy/Paste Define limitations of copy/paste Ensure compliance via auditing; i.e., use all of your HIM eyes to assist-coders, analysts, etc. Address significant issues through HIM Committee or PI processes

  13. Avoid Copy/Paste if Possible One of the advantages of EMR is ability to reduce MD work load Partner with MDs and IT to develop faster methods to document Lead evaluation of different methods to reduce documentation time Solidify HIM as a leader

  14. Inappropriate Use Copying problems that are no longer active Copying medications that are no longer current Up-coding Not identifying author

  15. Alternatives to Cut/Paste Templates Dictation (2-hour turnaround) Scribes; i.e., residents Develop structured rounding notes; i.e., pre-loaded with last 24 hours of lab/meds/rads Use of pull forward data with ability to subtract/update data Build in “sign off” that data is now current Make it easy to do it right the first time How many clicks does it take?

  16. HIM Management of Copy/Paste Investigate/Troubleshoot Audit Report Findings Guidelines (set Policies/Procedures) Educate HIM staff Train physicians, nurses, techs

  17. Create a Tool to Assist with Investigation Identify statement of issue Identify concerns Identify information yielded from investigation Identify your root cause of issue Make recommendations for resolve

  18. Auditing How do you copy/paste in your EHR? Determine how this is done Is there an audit field available? Is the audit field turned on?

  19. Audits Perform random audits Use Compliance staff Coders Medical Record Reviewers; i.e., analyzers, auditors.

  20. Guidelines (Policy/Procedures) Organizational use System specific use System selection criteria Sanctions–Rules and Regulations Corrections General and copy/paste Be selective in copying/pasting into the HER The individual performing the copy/paste is responsible for the documentation regardless of who authored the original information.

  21. Training How to document Good workflows Clear understanding of what needs to be captured What can be brought forward Partner with medical staff leaders to address Teach practitioners/students that careless copying creates untrustworthy records

  22. Questions Scenarios Questions

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