HPMP Compliance Workbook

IPRO is pleased to offer a new resource, the HPMP Compliance Workbook, compiled by TMF Health Quality Institute (TMF), the HPMP Support QIO, to aid your hospital in reducing Medicare payment errors. The workbook provides practical guidance, suggestions and helpful tools for hospitals seeking to develop, update or strengthen their compliance program structures and processes.

As the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization for New York State, IPRO is providing the HPMP Compliance Workbook to your hospital as part of the Hospital Payment Monitoring Program (HPMP), the national initiative to measure, monitor and reduce the incidence of improper fee-for-service inpatient payments.

If you have any questions or comments about the HPMP Compliance Workbook, please contact Renato Estrella, MS, RHIA, Director HIM, Medicare/Federal Health Care Assessment at 516-209-5674.

HPMP Compliance Workbook, All Sections and Appendices, Zip file

HPMP Compliance Workbook, Sections 1 - 8
Appendix A: AHIMA Code of Ethics, revised 2004
Appendix B: AHIMA Standards of Ethical Coding, 1999 version
Appendix C: Corporate compliance officers should incorporate PEPPER reports into their compliance program auditing and monitoring, by Catherine M. Boerner, JD, CCH Health Care Compliance Letter, Volume 7, Issue 24, November 29, 2004, p.4-6.
Appendix D: Audit Tool - DRG 079/080 Pneumonia Review, TMF Health Quality Institute
Appendix E: Audit Tool - Coding
Appendix F: Audit Tool - Discharge Status Code Validation, Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care
Appendix G: Patient Discharge Status Policy and Procedure Checklist, Indiana Medicare Quality Improvement Organization
Appendix H: Postacute Care Transfer Payment Policy, Medicare Program; Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and Fiscal Year 2006 Rates, Final Rule, 70 FR 47411 - 47420 (August 12, 2005)
Appendix I: Audit Tool - Admission and DRG Review, TMF Health Quality Institute
Appendix J: Audit Tool - One-Day Inpatient Stays, Lovelace Health System, NMMRA
Appendix K: Audit Workplan - One-Day Hospital Stays, The Moore Consulting Group, LLC (MCG)
Appendix L: Hospital Payment Monitoring Program Fact Sheet, Admitting Orders Examples, Louisiana Health Care Review, Inc.
Appendix M: HPMP Utilization Management Strategies, Louisiana Health Care Review, Inc.
Appendix N: Medicare Level of Service Matrix, New Mexico Medical Review Association (NMMRA)
Appendix O: Observation or Inpatient Admission Decision Tree Card, TMF Health Quality Institute
Appendix P: Medicare Hospital Observation Status, Physician Quick Reference Guide, OMPRO - A Healthcare Quality Resource
Appendix Q: Inpatient Documentation Prompter, TMF Health Quality Institute
Appendix R: Provider Liable Billing, Trailblazers
Appendix S: Applying Root Cause Analysis and Failure Mode and Effect Analysis to our Compliance Programs, by Margaret Hambleton, Journal of Health Care Compliance, Volume 7, Number 2, March/April 2005, pg. 5.
Appendix T: Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)'s "A Framework for a Root Cause Analysis and Action Plan In Response to a Sentinel Event."
Appendix U: Admission Medical-Necessity Errors Abound; Hospitals Try New Compliance Strategies, by Nina Youngstrom, Report on Medicare Compliance, Volume 14, Number 10, March 21, 2005
Appendix V: Amendments to Chapter Eight of the United States Sentencing Organizational Guidelines - November 2004
Appendix W: OIG and AHLA's Corporate Responsibility and Corporate Compliance: A Resource for Health Care Board of Directors
Appendix X: List of Web sites for additional resources