COVID-19 Resources for Healthcare
Thoughtware Resource
Mar 26, 2020
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As COVID-19 affects our nation, BKD’s healthcare pros understand the current operating environment is changing rapidly and adding stress. While health care leaders, physicians and staff remain focused on the health and well-being of your people, business, patients and community, you can rely on BKD for assistance to help relieve the strain. We’re in this together.
How BKD Can Help
Regulatory Issues Insight
- Interpreting 1135 waivers and their effect on current operations
- Monitoring congressional action
- Navigating telehealth and related issues
- Monitoring government and regulatory activity related to COVID-19 and keeping you updated on similar topics with BKD Thoughtware®
Remote Management: IT & Workforce
- IT mobility
- Vendor management/remote workforce strategies and measurement
- We can help you manage vendors for increased mobility-related bandwidth and monitor efficiency
- Empowering your remote workforce
- BKD can assist in developing remote-office policies and procedures and provide strategies for monitoring productivity
Cash Margin & Flow Assistance
- Coding, billing and denial preventions related to COVID-19 services
- For discharges on or after April 1, 2020, coding for COVID-19 cases will be ICD-10-CM code U07.1 (2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease). Boosting your coding denial prevention is critical.
- Accounts receivable management and cash acceleration services
- National health care emergencies often affect cash flow. Many businesses are deploying remote work forces, which will initially affect productivity and inflate accounts receivable (AR). BKD has designed algorithms to help accelerate cash and reduce AR spikes.
- Physician compensation planning and triage
- We can assess short-term disruptions created for provider compensation plan results and recommend strategies to help handle those changes, including financial effect estimation. Once the plan has been chosen, BKD can also help explain it to stakeholders.
- Clinic operations triage planning
- BKD can assess short-term disruptions to clinical operations involving redeployed providers and patient medical issues and recommend helpful strategies for staffing, scheduling and facility use.
- Clinic revenue cycle triage plan
- We can assess short-term changes to various professional services performed in clinics and help you identify billable services, e.g., telehealth services, and meeting-related requirements for service documentation and billing information, e.g., demographics.
- Telehealth and physician COVID-19 documentation, coding and billing
- BKD vigilantly filters the barrage of pandemic documentation, coding and billing modifications and guidance. We’re prepared to help hospitals, clinics, rural health clinics, physician practices and other venues, e.g., telehealth, apply fast-approaching and/or immediate revisions. We can lend a hand with:
- Pre-bill and secondary-level documentation reviews
- Coding and documentation reviews
- Denial prevention and appeal writing
- Training and education
- BKD vigilantly filters the barrage of pandemic documentation, coding and billing modifications and guidance. We’re prepared to help hospitals, clinics, rural health clinics, physician practices and other venues, e.g., telehealth, apply fast-approaching and/or immediate revisions. We can lend a hand with:
Risk Mitigation
- Business interruption claims
- U.S. Small Business Administration loan assistance
- Fraud prevention and mitigation in times of crisis
- Cybersecurity vulnerabilities and breaches
Tax Assistance
The IRS has already delayed and extended various deadlines. As information is released, we’ll be ready with relevant resources.
Resources
- COVID-19 Payor Regulation Updates
- Healthcare Provider Money in the CARES Act
- QRP Relief
- Medicare Coverage and Payment Related to COVID-19
- Medicare COVID-19 Fact Sheet
- COVID-19 Emergency Declaration Healthcare Providers Fact Sheet
- Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) Response to the Public Health
Emergency on the Coronavirus (COVID-19) - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – Provider Survery and Certification and FAQ
- Additional Emergency and Disaster-Related Policies and Procedures That May Be Implemented Only With a § 1135 Waiver
- COVID-19 Assessment Tools: Prioritization of Survey Activity (Includes Surveyor / Self Assessment Checklist)
- CDC Preparedness Checklist
- Infection Control Worksheet
- MDS – October 1, 2020 MDS 3.0 v1.18.1 Release Delay Announcement
- Waiver for MDS Timeframe Requirements (due to COVID-19)
- USA.gov has the latest information on the U.S. government’s COVID-19 response
- CDC.gov/coronavirus has the latest public health and safety information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- CMS Announces Relief for Clinicians, Providers, Hospitals and Facilities Participating in Quality Reporting Programs in Response to COVID-19
- Trump Administration Releases COVID-19 Checklists & Tools to Accelerate Relief for State Medicaid & CHIP Programs
- Toolkit on State Actions to Mitigate COVID-19 Prevalence in Nursing Homes
