CDI/MD Collaboration Lisa Didion, MD Section Chief - Pediatric Hospital Medicine Associate CMO – Children’s of Mississippi
Children’s of Mississippi By the numbers 8,300 inpatient admissions/year 8,500 surgeries/year 44,500 ER visits/year 112,000 clinic visits/year 30+ specialists 250+ faculty
Children’s of Mississippi 230 inpatient beds Batson Children’s Hospital Only children’s hospital in state 30 Critical Care beds 100 Med/Surg beds Wiser Hospital 100 bed NICU Only level 4 NICU in the state
CDI at Children’s Overall goal Improve documentation Consistently Accurately Improve Documentation Increase CMI Increase Reimbursement
Road to Towards the Goal Collaboration! Many providers don’t know whose looking at their documentation Providers don’t know all the “buzz words” Key players CDI Coding Providers Residents Nurse Practitioners Faculty
Collaboration at Children’s Clinical Documentation Excellence Teams Length of Stay Teams
Clinical Documentation Excellence Teams “Big Picture” Multidisciplinary CDI Coding Billing Providers Informatics
Clinical Documentation Excellence Teams Department of Pediatrics NICU specific Review: Professional billing Hospital billing Unspecified code usage Query response rate CMI Denials ICD-10 transition
Clinical Documentation Excellence Teams Keys to success Education, education, education Departmental Performance Improvement Conference Resident Orientation Departmental faculty meetings Divisional meetings One-on-one Tip cards – unspecified code usage Query process Within EHR Response rates
Query Response Rate
Improving Query Response Rates Education & Availability Data Departmental Division Provider
Unspecified Code Usage – Dept of Pediatrics
CMI – Children’s of Mississippi
LOS – Children’s of Mississippi
CMI - Hospitalist
Length of Stay Teams APR-DRG based Team Encounters LOS variance New pathways/guidelines Team Physician Champion CDI * Coding * Leadership
Length of Stay Teams Goals Education & data sharing Standardize care “My patients are much sicker than this” Standardize care Identify barriers to discharge Improve documentation
Length of Stay Teams Asthma (141) Bronchiolitis (138) Sickle Cell Pain Crisis (662) Diabetes (420) Childhood Behavioral Disorders (758) Appendectomy (225) NICU 500-749g (591), 750-999g (593), >2499 with major procedure (631)
Data Example– LOS Team Children's of Mississippi LOS Committee Diabetes Dashboard - APRDRG 420 - September 2015 Sep-15 Sep-14 # of Encounters Severity ALOS Expected LOS 2 1 2.36 2.61 2.07 8 1.81 2.75 9 2.54 3 0.00 4.27 3.56 4 9.35 Aug-15 Rolling 12 Months 5 2.22 46 2.04 10 2.79 116 2.69 19 2.91 4.26 8.87
CMI - Appendectomy
CMI - Bronchiolitis
CMI - Diabetes
CMI - Sickle Cell Pain Crisis
Lesson’s Learned Names and faces Education & Availability Data CDI team Physician Champions Education & Availability Data Feedback
Thank You Children’s CDI Team Shelia Bullock Laura Collins Maury Sherman