2025 Risk Adjustment Coding and HCC Guide (eBook)

• Optum Edge — Understand risk adjustment coding and HCCs. Explanations provided on the three types of HCCs covered under Medicare, CMS-HCC, Rx-HCC, and ESRD/PACE-HCC. HSS-HCCs used for commercial plans and VBR programs are also explored.
  
  
• Optum Edge — Easy-to-use tables of HCCs. RxHCC and CMS-HCC Model risk adjustment tables are included.
  
  
• Optum Edge — Calculate RAF scores. Use the HCC tables to identify conditions impacting health status and cost of care. Calculate RAF scores for your patients to quantify risk. 
  
  
• Optum Edge — Learn which demographic factors and conditions impact risk. Discover the role chronic conditions play in overall risk adjustment, how the risk adjustment factor (RAF) score is calculated, and how the cumulative RAF score for covered beneficiaries drives payments to health plans. 
  
  
• Understand the provider’s role. Documentation and coding are the basis for delineating health status and calculating risk. Use the clinical documentation improvement tips to increase coding specificity, translating into accurate RAF scores.
  
  
• Access to data files online.  The CMS-HCC and HSS-HCC data files are provided on the Optum Product Update page on optumcoding.com.  

Ms. Schmidt has expertise in Level I Adult and Pediatric Trauma hospital coding, specializing in ICD-9-CM, ICD-10-CM/PCS, DRG, and CPT coding. Her experience includes analysis of medical record documentation, assignment of ICD-10-CM and PCS codes, DRG validation, as well as CPT code assignments for same-day surgery cases. She has conducted coding training and auditing, including DRG validation, conducted electronic health record training, and worked with clinical documentation specialists to identify documentation needs and potential areas for physician education. Most recently she has been developing content for resource and educational products related to ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS. Ms. Schmidt is an AHIMA-approved ICD-10-CM/PCS trainer and is an active member of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and the Minnesota Health Information Management Association (MHIMA).

Ms. Petersen is a Registered Health Information Administrator with 30 years of experience in the healthcare profession. She has served as Senior Clinical Product Research Analyst with Optum developing business requirements for edits to support correct coding and reimbursement for claims processing applications. Her experience includes development of data-driven and system rules for both professional and facility claims and in-depth analysis of claims data inclusive of ICD-10-CM, CPT, HCPCS, and modifiers. Her background also includes consulting work for Optum, providing coding and reimbursement education to internal and external clients. Ms. Petersen is a member of the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC), and the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).