Hospice Management Through Business Intelligence is proudly presented to you by National Association for Home Care & Hospice. Thank you. We hope that you enjoy your course.
Since 2007, CMS has required hospice providers to give additional data elements on claims. These new elements include HCPCs codes identifying a place of service; a number of visits by time performed by physicians, nurses, social workers, therapists, and home health aides; medication and pain pump reporting; new discharge codes; NPIs; face-to-face, and much more. With the 2016 Hospice Wage Index and Service Intensity Add-On, CMS may be driving reimbursement toward an episodic model. This session will review information accessible through EMR software and a pharmacy vendor data collection tool to help hospice providers manage expenses, train referral sources, and identify a length of stay based on diagnosis and medication trends.
Learning Objectives
• Review of system data providers can access to help model staffing, medication trends, and clinical outcomes
• Discuss business intelligence tools through patient-specific pharmacy use to predict the length of stay
• Show how using analytics and benchmarking tools increase earlier hospice referrals to drive long lengths of stay and better model cost drivers associated with patient care
Faculty:
Anne Hochsprung, CPA
Christine Lange, MBA