Lessons Learned: Case Studies in POA Implementation

Format: Audio CD-ROM (includes presentation materials)
Estimated Duration: 90 minutes
Non-Member Price: $75
Member Price: $50

OVERVIEW

This “lessons learned” audioconference is a follow-up session to the four-part series, Thriving in the P4P Environment: Strategies for Meeting the Challenges of POA/PQRI/P4P/P4R (recordings are also available for that series).

Implementation of the present on admission indicator will bring changes to Medicare reimbursement in 2009. The POA indicator also will change the way Texas hospitals report discharge data that is available to the public. The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration has required Florida hospitals to submit POA on all inpatient discharges since Jan. 1, 2007. In this recorded audioconference, The Florida Hospital Association shares what the impact has been on the public reporting of hospital mortality and patient safety indicators. Also, a Florida hospital discusses how the hospital implemented POA coding, who was involved, steps taken and what lessons have been learned in the interim.

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TARGET AUDIENCE

Chief executive officers, chief medical officers, medical directors, medical staff members, nurse executives, compliance officers, chief financial officers, coders/HIM managers, quality and performance improvement managers and case managers will benefit from this program. Hospitals are encouraged to include other department directors as appropriate, based on the specifics of the session.

DISCUSSION TOPICS

The impact of the present on admission indicator on the AHRQ hospital mortality/patient safety indicators.
Hospital departments that should be included for successful implementation of POA coding.
How POA data can be used internally by hospitals.
Two lessons learned regarding the implementation of POA.

FACULTY

Kim Streit, M.B.A., M.H.S., vice president, health care research and information, Florida Hospital Association, Orlando, Fla. Streit is responsible for data analysis and tracking issues and trends impacting Florida hospitals. Her areas of special concentration include the uninsured, managed care, hospital report cards and hospital preparedness. Streit has authored numerous reports on health care trends in Florida, the nursing and allied health professional shortage, the uninsured and financial issues impacting hospitals.

Wendy Iravedra, RHIA, CHP, director, health information management and privacy officer, Memorial Hospital West, Pembroke Pines, Fla. Iravedra is responsible for strategizing and implementing the direction of the department, including coding and billing operations, compliant documentation management and telecommuting programs; she also serves as privacy officer for the facility. Prior to her current role, Iravedra consulted for a national firm for outsourcing health information management, and worked in managed care and in teaching and urban facilities in various management capacities of health information management.

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