Risk Adjustment Audits For Medicare Part C – Review of Ophthalmology
Knowing what to expect from a Risk Adjustment Data Validation audit will help to prevent easily avoidable errors.
This article addresses the following questions:
- Does Medicare Part C function in the same manner as Medicare Part B?
- Is beneficiary enrollment in Medicare Advantage plans growing?
- Who pays private insurance companies to manage Part C plans?
- How do the plans collect data on an individual patient?
- How does CMS determine the accuracy of the risk-adjusted payments they make to the managed-care plans?
- Who provides the information to the Advantage plan for submission to CMS when the plan is audited?
- Should we assume that any records request from an Advantage plan is for a RADV audit?
- Do I need patient consent to release medical records for a RADV audit?
- How many records are requested by the plan to satisfy a RADV audit?
- What types of errors are found during a risk adjustment audit?
- Will the ICD-10 coding system improve the data submitted to CMS?
- Should we include patients with Medicare Advantage plans in our internal and external chart review process?
This article was published in Review of Ophthalmology’s Medicare Q & A column, which is written by Corcoran’s Vice-President, Donna McCune, CCS-P, COE, CPMA. To view the entire article in Review of Ophthalmology, click on the link below:
http://www.reviewofophthalmology.com/content/d/medicare_q___and___a/i/3506/c/58528/