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Copyright © 2008 Delmar Learning. All rights reserved.

Chapter 9

CMS

Reimbursement Methodologies


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Federal Health Care Programs

• CHAMPVA

• Indian Health Service

• Medicaid

• Medicare

• TRICARE

• Workers’ Compensation


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Ambulance Fee Schedule

• Ambulance suppliers to accept Medicare assignment

• Reporting of HCPCS codes on claims for ambulance services

• Revision of the verification requirements for coverage of nonemergency ambulance services


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Ambulatory Surgical Center

• Surgical health care services that must accept assignment on Medicare claim

• Must be a separate entity distinguishable from any other entity or facility– Must have its own employer identifier

number as well as processes for:


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Ambulatory Surgical Center

• Accreditation • Administrative function• Clinical services • Financial and accounting systems• Governance • Professional supervision• Recordkeeping • State licensure


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Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule

• Data set based on a local fee schedule

• Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 – Established the Medicare Clinical

laboratory fee schedule


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• Medicare reimburses laboratory services according to the:

– Submitted charge– National limitation amount– Local fee schedule amount

• Whichever one of these is the lowest


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• CMS divided ESRD items and services into two different groups for the purposes of payment

• These two groups are:


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• Dialysis and associated routine services are reimbursed according to a composite rate.

– Paying according to a composite rate is a common form of Medicare payment– Known as bundling


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• Injectable drugs and certain laboratory tests that were not routine or not available in 1983 when Medicare implemented the ESRD composite rate

– Reimbursed separately according to a per-service basis


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• Each diagnosis-related group (DRG) has a fee weight given to it– Based on the average resources used to

treat Medicare patients in that DRG


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• Repayment rate can be adjusted according to the following guidelines: – Disproportionate share hospital adjustment – Indirect medical education adjustment– Outliers


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• Several DRG systems were developed for use in the United States, including:


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• Diagnosis-related groups: – Original system used by CMS to reimburse

hospitals for inpatient care provided to Medicare beneficiaries


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• Diagnosis-related groups: – Based on intensity of resources, which is

the relative volume and types of diagnostic, therapeutic, and inpatient bed services used to manage an inpatient disease

– Replaced in 2008 by all patient refined DRGs


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• All patient diagnosis-related groups – Original DRG system adapted for use by

third party payers to reimburse hospitals for inpatient care provided to non-Medicare beneficiaries.

– Based on intensity of resources


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• All patient refined diagnosis-related groups – Adopted by Medicare in 2008 to reimburse

hospital for inpatient care provided to Medicare beneficiaries


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• All patient refined diagnosis-related groups – Expanded original DRG system to add two

subclasses to each DRG that adjusts Medicare inpatient hospital reimbursement rates for severity of illness


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• Each subclass, in turn, is subdivided into four areas:

1. Minor

2. Moderate

3. Major

4. Extreme


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• IPPS three day payment window entails outpatient pre-admission services given by a hospital, up to three days earlier to a patient’s inpatient admission– To be covered by the IPPS DRG payment

for:


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• Diagnostic services

• Therapeutic services for which the inpatient principal diagnosis code exactly matches that for preadmission services


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• All the procedures and services are included in a outpatient encounter that was provided on the same day


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Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Prospective Payment System

• Implemented as a result of Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHOP Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999


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Elements of the IPFPPS

• Minimum date set for post acute care

• Case mix groups

• CMG relative weights

• CMG payment rates


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Elements of the IPFPPS

• BBRA of 1999 authorized implementation of a per-discharge DRG long-term care hospital prospective payment system for cost reporting periods beginning on or after October 1, 2002


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Major Elements of LTCHPPS

• Patient classification system

• Relative weights

• Payment rate


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Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System

• Modified repayment for Medicare Part A skilled nursing facility services

• Starting 1998– SNFs were no longer paid on a reasonable

cost basis but rather on the basis of a prospective payment system


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Major Elements of SNFPPS

• Payment rate

• Case mix adjustment

• Geographic adjustment

• Adjustments


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Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

• As of 1992, medical doctors’ services and procedures are:– Paid back according to a payment system

identified as the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale


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Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

• System is currently known as” Medicare physician fee schedule”– Reimburses providers according to pre-

determined rates assigned to services– Improved by CMS annually


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Payment Components

• Physician work– Physician’s time and intensity in providing

the service

• Practice expense– Overhead costs involved in providing a

service

• Malpractice expense


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Payment Components

• Medicare physician fee schedule is used to determine payment for Medicare Part B services– Other services, such as anesthesia,

pathology/laboratory, and radiology, require special consideration


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Payment Components

• Anesthesia services payments– Based on the actual time an

anesthesiologist spends with a patient and the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ relative value system


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Payment Components

• Radiology services payments vary according to place of service


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Payment Components

• Pathology services payment vary according to number of patients served:– Includes clinical laboratory management and

supervision of technologists covered and paid as hospital services.

– Directed to an individual patient in a hospital setting and are paid under physician fee schedule


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Nonparticipating Physicians

• Nonparticipating providers who don’t accept assignment from Medicare, which means the amount Medicare pays back for services presented– Subject to a five percent decrease of the

Medicare physician fee schedule


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Medicare Secondary Payer

• Automobile medical or no-fault insurance

• Disabled individual covered by a large group health plan or who has coverage under the LCHP of a family member who is currently employed


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• End-stage renal disease program

• Federal black-lung program

• Other liability insurance

• Veteran Administration benefits


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• Working group health plan maintained by an employer, or an individual age 65 or older who is covered by a working spouse’s EGHP


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• Upon claims submission, amount of secondary benefits payable is the lowest of:– Actual charges by physician or supplier

minus amount paid by primary payer


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• Amount Medicare would pay if services were not covered by the primary payer– Higher of the Medicare physician fee

schedule minus the amount actually paid by the primary payer


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• To calculate amount of Medicare secondary benefits payable on a given claim, the following information is required:– Amount paid by primary payer – Primary payer’s allowable charge


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Chargemaster

• Computer generated list of procedures, services, and supplies with charges for each: – Department code– Service codes – Service description – Revenue code – Charge amount – Relative value units


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Claims Submission

• Ambulance companies

• Ambulatory surgery centers

• Home health care agencies

• Hospice organizations


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Claims Submission

• Hospitals

• Psychiatric drug/alcohol treatment facilities

• Skilled nursing facilities

• Sub-acute facilities

• Stand-alone clinical/laboratory facilities

• Walk-in clinics

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