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From the Trenches is a healthcare analytics podcast from Cotiviti (formerly Verscend Technologies), a leading solutions and analytics company that is reshaping the economics of healthcare. On the show, we explore the latest trends in healthcare quality and performance analytics, risk adjustment, payment integrity, and data management. Tweet your suggestions and comments for the podcast to @cotiviti or email jeffrey.robinson@cotiviti.com.
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When a health plan is deciding whether to pay a claim, there’s no shortage of information to consider and reviews that must be performed, including medical coding and documentation. And perhaps the most challenging question to answer is this: is the information on the claim clinically appropriate? On episode 18 of “From the Trenches” podcast, we sp…
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Payment accuracy programs are critical to delivering value to health plan members. Some plans excel at recovery management while others struggle—and the difference in financial results is significant. But regardless of size, any health plan can improve its recovery results by pulling a few key levers. Cotiviti's Chris Mastro, vice president of oper…
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For health plans, managing payment recovery is very challenging and hard to accomplish without negatively impacting their net promoter scores. And this proves especially difficult when using collection agencies that are not experts in claims payment and the plan’s individual overpayment concepts. On the latest episode of our “From the Trenches” pod…
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Although the cost of inpatient hospital stays continues to rise, health plans are finding that their inpatient claim auditing programs are returning less value. They’re also facing challenges such as provider abrasion resulting from requesting too many medical charts to validate those claims, which makes it more difficult to successfully retrieve m…
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As they look to tame their data and turn it into actionable insights, many payers are significantly ramping up their data analytics strategy by building a data lake, housing both structured and unstructured data. Serving 1.5 million members, Excellus BlueCross BlueShield of New York is making significant progress on its own data lake journey. We sp…
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The longstanding barriers to data sharing between healthcare organizations have been breaking down over the past decade, removing a major obstacle to partnerships between payers and providers. But major challenges remain, as data management only continues to grow in complexity and healthcare organizations try to make sense of a flood of information…
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Healthcare organizations must constantly improve their technologies and processes to stay one step ahead of healthcare fraud. So, what does the leading national organization focused on the fight against healthcare fraud see on the horizon in this ongoing battle? On the latest episode of our “From the Trenches” podcast, we sit down with Louis Saccoc…
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When a health plan denies a claim, the provider wants to know why it was denied. Sometimes, the answer is that a modifier appears to have been used inappropriately, which Cotiviti detects using a process we call clinical validation. And as it turns out, clinical validation doesn’t just lead to better outcomes for the payer, but also the members and…
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Compliance is becoming an increasingly difficult challenge for Medicare Advantage plans, especially when it comes to their risk adjustment programs. When CMS selects plans for a risk adjustment data validation (RADV) audit, they need to have a high degree of certainty that their diagnoses submitted for reimbursement are valid. So, what’s the soluti…
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You’ve submitted your final data to NCQA and CMS, marking the end of the HEDIS® 2018 marathon. Now it’s on to the next challenge: Star Ratings performance. In the latest episode of Cotiviti's “From the Trenches” podcast, we wrap up this year’s HEDIS season, discuss the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Five-Star Quality Rating System, …
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The countdown is on for the June 15 deadline to submit your HEDIS 2018® data, and there’s no shortage of details to keep track of to ensure your submission is accurate, locked on time, and approved by your auditor. We hear from Cotiviti product manager Jamison Gillitzer and senior data analyst Charan Govind, who offer important reminders to help he…
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Automated claim editing systems are a crucial component of accurate and efficient claims payment. But there will always be claims that are too complex to be auto-adjudicated and need a human touch. So, what exactly do you need to clinically validate a claim? We talk with Kris Jensen, registered nurse and clinical consultant for Cotiviti's Payment A…
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The HEDIS® 2018 deadline for submitting your medical record review validation (MRRV) data is earlier this year than in years past. Are you prepared? On this episode, our monthly dive into HEDIS season continues as we get tips for MRRV success from Carrie Taylor and Holly Conk, managers of HEDIS abstraction for Cotiviti.…
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Is your claim editing system catching all types of duplicate claims, or are many of them passing through and getting paid? And if so, what can you do about it? We talk with John Neumann, registered nurse and clinical consultant for Cotiviti's Payment Accuracy solutions, who breaks down common misconceptions about duplicate claims and describes how …
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its final 2019 Medicare Advantage and Part D Rate Announcement and Call Letter. What are the key takeaways for Medicare Advantage plans and their risk adjustment programs? We dive in with vice president Lesley Brown, who drives the product strategy for Cotiviti's Risk Adjustment soluti…
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The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) is proposing several new measures and measure changes for next year’s HEDIS® season. We examine how this would impact health plans with Jenna Fitcher, product director for Cotiviti's Quality and Performance Solutions, as well as product manager Jamison Gillitzer.…
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As payers increasingly use quality data to drive performance improvement initiatives across their organizations, Cotiviti conducted a survey in late 2017 to determine how organizational shifts are affecting their strategy and planning. We look over the results with David Bartley, vice president of Quality and Performance.…
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