Description
The Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) is the most significant change to the home health payment reform in the past two decades. The impact from PDGM is expected to significantly shift service delivery and will change the structure of home health reimbursements. Two key components for calculating payment under PDGM will be clinical group assignment and comorbidity adjustment, thus making ICD-10 coding more important than ever.
The need for specific diagnoses is not limited to the primary diagnosis section. PDGM introduces a co-morbidity adjustment that is calculated from up to 24 diagnoses that follow the primary reason home care is tracking the patient. The co-morbidity adjustment can increase reimbursement up to 20%.
Specificity and accuracy in ICD-10 will be critical. The long-held practice of accepting whatever patient information physicians deem to send agencies for referrals — because “that’s all they have,” will no longer be an option under PDGM.
Join the experts from BlackTree Healthcare Consulting as they take a deeper dive into the detail of PDGM clinical groupings and co-morbidity adjustments. This training will provide participants with a deeper understanding of the challenge’s agencies will face with these two key components in PDGM and how best to prepare for a smooth transition.
Course Author - Robin Seidman
Objectives
After completion of this webinar, the active learner will be able to:
- Define what a co-morbidity adjustment is under PDGM.
- Describe the changes to the regulatory language for coding secondary diagnoses under PDGM versus the Home Health Prospective Payment System.
- Understand when a Low, High, or No co-morbidity adjustment is applied.
- Discuss when secondary diagnosis would be used to determine the clinical grouping for primary diagnosis.
- Explain the steps to navigate the PDGM grouping tool, including how the clinical grouping and co-morbidity adjustment is calculated.
- Discuss operational strategies related to coding and the co-morbidity adjustment to support the transition to PDGM.
Certificate
By completing/passing this course, you will attain the certificate HCAF Course Certificate
Learning Credits
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