This episode of our award-winning podcast examines the impact of risk adjustment models and methodologies. Knowing the models and their updates is crucial to full reimbursement for the patient’s care.
 
Moderator:
Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE, SFHM
Senior Principal, Clinical Operations and Quality
Vizient
 
Guest:
Jim Tamburini, BS, RHIT, CCS, CCS-P, CDIP
Senior Consulting Director, Clinical Documentation Improvement and Coding
Vizient
 
Show Notes:
[00:58] The importance of risk models
[01:35] Reflecting how sick your patients are
[01:54] Variables and need for correct documentation
[02:43] Vizient methodology to help documentation
[03:19] Palliative care codes
[03:57] Present on Admission (POA)
[04:19] Obesity
[04:50] Malnutrition: average hospital patient only eats 1200 calories/day
[06:32] Cardiac device variables
[07:57] Oncology models
 
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Jim’s email: [email protected]
Vizient clinical documentation improvement site: Click here
 
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