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Workload Capture and Coding
Keeping it Simple!
National Education Blitz
March 2011
Sharon Castle, Pharm.D., BCPS
Chief, Pharmacy Service
Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center
Charleston, South Carolina
History
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Workload/Billing Workgroup formed in 2007 to
improve documentation of pharmacist encounters
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Lori Golterman, Jan Carmichael, Sharon Castle
Milestones
Decision to use Patient Care Encounter system to document
outpatient and inpatient workload (PCE, not event capture)
 160 (clinical pharmacy stop code) approved for use as a
primary stop code
 Expanded the definition of encounter to include items such
as NF reviews, non face to face workload
 Major improvements Nationally with pharmacist
documentation
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Future
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National group expanded to gain further expertise
3 Categories
 Workload
capture documentation
 Continue
national education
 Alpha codes specific to pharmacy
 Reports
 Corporate
 National
 Draft
Data Warehouse reports
Directive
in review by group
Progress Reports
Facility Specific
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Complexity 1c and 99 (FY2010)
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100,000
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60,000
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20,000
5,000
West Palm Beach, FL
Lexington, KY
Louisville, KY
Dayton, OH
Detroit, MI
Kansas City, MO
Shreveport, LA
Central Texas HCS
Martinez, CA
Long Beach, CA
Orlando, FL
New Orleans, LA
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Clinic Encounters - 160 Primary (Left X-Axis)
Clinic Encounters - 160 Secondary (Left X-Axis)
Iowa City, IA
Columbia, SC
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Nebraska Western Iowa HCS
Charleston, SC
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Bronx, NY
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Syracuse, NY
Clinic Encounters (Bars)
40,000
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Pharmacy Uniques (Right X-Axis)
Pharmacy Uniques (Line)
45,000
Progress Reports
160 Primary or Secondary/Pharmacy Unique
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VISN Station
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Clinic Encounters 160 Primary or
Secondary
Bay Pines, FL
Tucson, AZ
Amarillo, TX
Reno, NV
Central Iowa HCS
Charleston, SC
Tuscaloosa, AL
VA Black Hills HCS, SD
White City, OR
Huntington, WV
Grand Junction, CO
Jackson, MS
Clarksburg, WV
Cincinnati, OH
Spokane, WA
Chillicothe, OH
Northport, NY
Cleveland, OH
Saginaw, MI
201,735
75,024
34,555
34,959
30,368
36,818
11,460
15,487
11,571
22,405
8,626
32,219
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22,723
15,492
12,797
19,394
54,399
15,975
Clinic Encounters 160 Primary or
Pharmacy
Complexity
Secondary /
Uniques
Pharmacy Unique
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81,678
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40,152
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21,349
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25,785
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40,152
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12,627
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0.9055
17,103
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0.8798
13,152
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0.8658
25,877
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0.8622
10,005
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0.8237
39,115
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0.8072
18,493
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0.7652
29,696
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0.7323
21,154
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0.7222
17,720
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0.7077
27,406
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0.6672
81,536
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24,501
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Don’t Miss the Boat
What do you need to know to succeed?
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Pharmacy Workload Capture
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Key Elements
Face to Face
Telephone
“Chart Consult”
Count or
Non-count
Workload
Clinic Creation
Stop Code/
DSS Identifier
Selection
CPT Codes
PHARMACY
WORKLOAD
CAPTURE
Key References
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Patient Care Data Capture
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Copayment for Outpatient Care
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VHA Directive 2009-002, January 23, 2009
VHA Directive 2009-012, March 5, 2009
DSS Outpatient Identifiers
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VHA Directive 2008-069, October 27, 2008
All DSS Identifier references are located on the DSS Identifiers web
page http://vaww.dss.med.va.gov/programdocs/pd_oident.asp
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DSS Pharmacy Workload Collection Document
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http://vaww.dss.med.va.gov/programdocs/pd_clinictop.asp
2008 Telephone Encounter Definitions
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Website updated annually: 2011 References – Reference B (October 1, 2010)
Document available on SharePoint
Home Based Primary Care Program
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VHA Handbook 1141.01, January 31, 2007
Patient Encounters
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Patient Care Data Capture, VHA Directive 2009-002
An encounter is a professional contact between a patient and
a practitioner vested with responsibility for diagnosing,
evaluating, and treating the patient’s condition
 Encounters occur in both the outpatient and inpatient setting
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Why document workload?
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Legal and professional obligations
Encourage consistency throughout VA Clinical Pharmacy
Services to ensure count credit for clinical pharmacist services
Advance profession
Count versus Non Count
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Count refers to activity that meets the definition of an encounter
(PCDC VHA Directive 2009-002)
 Count activity requires (3 ’s):
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A corresponding progress note in CPRS 
Documentation must include medical history 
Documentation must include clinical decision making 
VA PBM goal to increase count workload
 A face to face visit is NOT required for count
Non-Count activity can be tracked for DSS workload purposes;
however, is not transmitted to NPCD in Austin
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Will only transmit to DSS for workload if done through a noncount
clinic/will not transmit if “historical” checked.
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This presentation will not review noncount workload capture for DSS
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Please review the 2009 presentations on the PBM website under workload and billing
process for more information on documenting noncount workload.
Count versus NonCount Examples
*Facility specific based on intervention and documentation!
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Pharmacy Intervention
Count*
Pharmacist Outpatient Clinics
X
Telephone Clinic (med management)
X
Nonformulary Consult
X (Formal consult or business rule
required + progress note by pharmacist
with documenting count activity)
X
Telephone calls from patients asking
questions (medication been mailed,
prescription refills, etc)
Inpatient consults (pharmacokinetics,
anticoagulation, etc)
NonCount
X (Formal consult or business rule/policy
for pharmacy to follow + progress note by
pharmacist documenting count activity)
Pharmacy Interventions (CrCl
adjustments, drug-drug interactions)
X
Drug Information Question
X
Education Classes
X (despite not always meeting 3 below)
*Count = 1. Medical history taken 2. Clinical decision making 3. Documentation in medical record
Stop Codes (DSS Identifiers)
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Primary Stop Codes (DSS Identifiers)
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160 – Clinical Pharmacy
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147 – Telephone clinics (Required to use as primary)
324 – PACT telephone clinics (Required to use for PACT)
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Use for all clinics except telephone and HBPC
Must use 324/323 in FY11 (New PACT codes in FY12)
176 – HBPC Clinical Pharmacist (Required to use as primary)
178 – HBPC telephone (Required to use as primary)
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Secondary Stop Codes (DSS Identifiers)
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Not pharmacy specific
Further defines where pharmacy services takes place
Provides standard reference workload accounting
Discretion left to local Medical Center; however, specificity allows
national tracking of pharmacist services
Certain areas may require deviation from this guidance for
special funding or performance measure tracking
Stop Codes (DSS Identifiers)
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Selection of Stop Codes/DSS Identifiers
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http://vaww.dss.med.va.gov/programdocs/pd_oident.asp
FY11 Summary of Active DSS Identifiers (Reference B on website)
Midyear changes/updates (For example, 348, PC Shared Medical Appointment)
Provides detail on each stop code/identifier
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Use of stop code in the primary, secondary or both
Definition provided for each stop code
Mental Health Example - Definitions provide clarity
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502 – Mental Health Clinic Individual
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Definition: Individual evaluation, consultation and/or treatment by clinical staff
trained in mental health diseases
Pharmacist can use as a secondary stop
509 – Psychiatry – Individual
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Definition: Use by psychiatrist only when care is not delivered in an
interdisciplinary setting
Pharmacist cannot use as a secondary stop (psychiatrist only)
DSS Active Identifiers
Reference B
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Common Secondary Stop Codes
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323 – Primary care
317 – Anticoagulation
160 – Clinical Pharmacy
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Will be used in secondary position when a primary stop other than
160 is required
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Telephone, HBPC (see previous slides)
306 – Diabetes
309 – Hypertension
318 – Geriatric Clinic
130 – Emergency Department
697 – Chart consult
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Allows intervention to be count but not charge a copay
Must have a formal consult
Chart Consult
Non-Face to Face Visits
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Use for all non-face to face visits that meet the definition
of count
Requires a formal consult from the provider/team or a
policy/business rule at the Medical Center that
automatically consults pharmacy for that particular
situation
Use 697 stop code in the secondary position
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697 – “Chart Consult” (160/697)
Avoids copay (did not see patient face to face)
Examples:
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Pharmacist completing nonformulary requests
Pharmacist automatically manages all aminoglycoside dosing
Stop Codes
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Clinic
Stop Code
Credit Stop Code
Warfarin Clinic (Face to Face)
160
317 (Anticoag)
Warfarin Clinic (Telephone)
147
160
Hypertension Clinic
160
309 (Hypertension)
Diabetes Clinic
160
306 (Diabetes)
Epogen (Anemia) Clinic
160
308 (Hematology)
HBPC Warfarin Clinic
176
317
HBPC Warfarin Telephone
178
160
Infectious Disease Clinic
160
310
Geriatric Clinic
160
318
Geriatric Evaluation and Management
160
319 (Geriatric Specialist)
Alpha Codes
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4 letter alpha code
Provides further granularity by clinic
Limited pharmacy specific codes available
Most major areas will be covered in FY12
DSS must enter alpha codes in the DSS side of VISTA
 The
fileman field is called Clinic and Stop Codes
 Field is not visible to us as part of the clinic profile
 Please work with your local DSS staff for addition of
alpha codes
 Example:
Inpatient Pharmacokinetics Clinic 160/697, PKPH
Alpha Codes Available
Full List Available On DSS Website
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CDPH
Cardiac Disease Pharmacist
PDCC
Pulmonary Disease CC Team
CGPH
Coag Management Pharmacist
PDPH
Pulmonary Disease Pharmacist
DEPH
Dementia Pharmacist
PHRM
Clinical Pharmacy
DIAB
Diabetes Education
PLPH
Palliative Pharmacist
DMCC
Diabetes Mellitus CC Team
PNPH
Pain Management Pharmacist
DMPH
Diabetes Mellitus Pharmacist
RHPH
Rehabilitation Pharmacist
HTCC
Hypertension CC Team
SCPH
HTPH
Hypertension Pharmacist
SSFU
SCI Pharmacist
Stop Smoke Follow-up – Individual
Patient
IDCC
Infectious Disease CC Team
WCPH
Wound Care Pharmacist
IDPH
Infectious Disease Pharmacist
SSGD
Stop Smoking Group Double Provider
MHCC
Mental Health CC Team
SPGP
Single Provider – Group of Patients
MHPH
Mental Health Pharmacist
SATP
Substance Abuse Treatment Program
MMPH
Multiple Co-Morbidities Pharmacist
CHOL
Cholesterol Education - Double Provider
Alpha Codes
Additions as of DSS Patch ECX*3*133 (6/30/2011)
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CDED Cardiac Disease Education (CHF, etc)
NSPH Nutritional Support Pharmacist
CRRC Cardiovascular Risk Reduction Pharmacist
NUCL Nuclear Medicine Pharmacist
CCPH Critical Care Pharmacist
ONCO Oncology Pharmacist
DRPH Dermatology Pharmacist
OPTH Ophthalmology Pharmacist
EDPH Emergency Department Pharmacist
SPCH Specialty Care Pharmacist
ESPH ESA Pharmacist
SUPH Surgery/Anesthesia/OR Pharmacist
HEPC Hepatitis C Pharmacist
PACP Patient Aligned Care Team Pharmacist
HIVD HIV Pharmacist
PACT Patient Aligned Care Team
IMPH Internal Medicine Pharmacist
PGEN Pharmacogenomics Pharmacist
MTMP Medication Therapy Management Pharmacist
PKPH Pharmacokinetics Pharmacist
MREC Medication Reconciliation Pharmacist
PTPH Polytrauma Pharmacist
NEUR Neurology Pharmacist
RHUM Rheumatology Pharmacist
NFPA Non-Formulary/Prior Approval Pharmacist
WMPH Women's Health Pharmacist
Copay
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Copay For Outpatient Medical Care
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Directive 2009-012
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Attachment B – Defines copay tiers for stop code
160 stop code – Basic copay = $15
147 stop code – No copay (telephone clinics)
Why is this important?
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Efforts to increase count credit for clinical pharmacy
services may result in copay
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160 Stop Code generates a $15 copay
If they have another visit that day, only 1 copay is charged
It is inappropriate to choose stop codes based on your
desire to charge or not charge a copay
The Big Picture
Is the
intervention
count?
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Count? (3 ’s required)
Medical history taken? 
Clinical decision making? 
Documented? 
Yes
Clinic is set-up
with appropriate
stop codes. 160
stop code will
generate $15.00
copay when
encounter
completed
Option 1: Set-up clinic
as non-count
Option 2: Link to
count clinic (if one
exists) but check
historical box on
encounter
No
Copay
*Example of #2: To
document “noncount”
interventions in a warfarin
clinic set up with a 160/317
stop code Will not require a
second noncount clinic but
not DSS workload credit.
Seen in
clinic?
Yes
No
No
If formal consult or
business rule/policy:
Option 1: To gain count
credit, a separate clinic will
need to be created with a
secondary stop of 697 to
avoid a copay 
Option 2: Can be seen in
clinic without 697 as
secondary stop but must be
marked historical to avoid
a copay, results in no count
credit 
*Ideal to allow
capture as count
*Should be used if a
high volume of
interventions fall into
this category
*Maximize count/no
copay!
*Lost count
workload
*Less desirable
*Should only be
used in low volume
scenarios where
you do not mind
losing count credit
Copay Scenario
Count with copay
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Pharmacist sees patient in hypertension
clinic
 Clinic
set-up: 160 primary/309 secondary
 Progress note entered
 History and clinical decision making documented
 Count
(3 ’s)
 Basic copay charged for 160 stop code
Copay Scenario
Count without copay based on clinic set-up
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Pharmacist reviews patient history and documentation to
ensure appropriate lab work is completed, correct dosing, and
provides recommendations to the provider or fulfills the
recommendations themselves
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Clinic set-up: 160 primary/697 secondary
Progress note entered
History and clinical decision making documented
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Count (3 ’s)
Basic copay not charged (697 secondary stop)
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Requires consult or business rule/policy to use 697
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May need two clinics, one count and one count with 697 secondary
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Anemia (EPO) clinic with pharmacist seeing patient in clinic (160/308)
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Anemia (EPO) clinic with pharmacist completing review as above (160/697)
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Allows you to obtain count workload without charging a copay
Medication Therapy Management
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Use New MTM Codes for all face- to-face pharmacist visits
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99605—MTM service(s) provided by a pharmacist to an individual patient
during a face-to-face encounter that involve an assessment and intervention
if provided; used to code the initial 15 minutes of an initial encounter with a
new MTM patient
99606—Initial 15 minutes with an established patient
99607—Each additional 15 minutes of an initial or subsequent MTM
encounter; list separately in addition to code for primary service and in
conjunction with 99605 or 99606
RVUs established by some insurances but not consistent
Currently billing institutional/facility fee
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$141 (if multiple visits that day, only 1 fee billed)
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Future goal: Establish payment structures for MTM within contracts
Nationally (CBO responsibility)
MTM Codes
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Inpatient/Chart Consults
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Inpatient
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Q: Can we use these new MTM CPT codes for inpatient services?
A: The new CPT codes were designed to be applicable for all pharmacy
practice environments and circumstances. The answer depends on whether
payers include inpatient pharmacist services in their spectrum of covered
benefits and whether the pharmacist is an employee of the institution or a
private practitioner. If a payer recognizes inpatient pharmacist services as a
separate billable service, the pharmacist should be able to use these codes
and get reimbursed as per the agreement with the payer.
VA bills one fee for inpatient services, rolling ancillary services into one
DRG; billing of the MTM codes for inpatient is therefore, irrelevant.
However, it is very important to set up clinics to capture workload.
Chart Consults (Pharmacist Encounter – Not Face to Face)
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Stop code 697 in the secondary position
Use MTM CPT codes
Mark clinic nonbillable in MCCR package to avoid coding/billing staff seeing
this as a face to face, billable clinic (see slide 30)
It is no longer recommended to use 99090/99091.
Clinic-Based Telephone Care
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VHA Directive 2009-002 Patient Care Encounters defines telephone
encounter:
 A telephone contact between a practitioner and a patient is only considered an
encounter (count) if the telephone contact is documented and that documentation
includes the appropriate elements of a face-to-face encounter, namely history and
medical decision-making.
 Telephone encounters must be associated with a telephone clinic that is assigned one
of the DSS telephone three-digit identifiers. Telephone encounters are to be
designated as non-billable and are count clinics.
Most clinic-based pharmacist telephone care are encounters and therefore should
be “count” clinics with documentation in the chart and workload sent to Austin
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Encounter is a professional contact between a patient and a practitioner vested
with responsibility for diagnosing, evaluating, and treating the patient’s condition.
As always, certain type of telephone ‘visits’ do not count and will be
documented as either a historical visit or as a note addendum.
 Examples: Appointment reminder, Follow-up after visit, Lab test results received day
after the visit
CPT Codes
Non Physician Services - Telephone
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98966 Telephone assessment and management service
provided by a qualified non-physician health care professional to
an established patient, parent, or guardian not originating from
a related assessment and management service provided within
the previous seven days nor leading to an assessment and
management service or procedure within the next 24 hours or
soonest available appointment; 5-10 minutes of medical
discussion
98967
11-20 minutes of medical discussion
98968
21-30 minutes of medical discussion
CPT Codes
Chart Consult
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Interpretation of Data Stored in a Computer
 Encounter
that collects and reviews data with
documentation
 99090
0-29 minutes
 99091 30 or more minutes
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Use for encounters (count workload) that you have
a secondary stop of 697.
 Example:
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Non-formulary reviews
Consult with facility compliance staff on
utilization
Secure Messaging
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Primary stop code: 160 / Secondary stop code: 719
CPT Code: 98969 (online assessment and management)
 The service being reported with this code cannot be a continuation of a
service that was provided within the previous seven days.
There is ONE option for directly saving secure messages from the SM application as
TIU notes. A single location of “Other” is the default location and this location
creates a “historical” note. Workload cannot be captured utilizing a “historical”
note. All notes saved directly from the secure messaging system to CPRS are saved
as a historical note.
Workload Credit: For the limited number of messages that meet the criteria for an
online evaluation, the author may utilize the copy and paste functionality to copy a
secure message, in its entirety, from the SM application to create a note that is
associated with a count, non-billable clinic specifically set up to capture secure
messages. The clinic must utilize the secondary stop code 719 to ensure all first and
third party billing is suppressed and to allow for accurate capture of information.
All notes that are copied and pasted from the SM application are mapped to the
standard note title “My HealtheVet (MHV) Dialog Note.”
Billable/Nonbillable Option
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Option available in MCCR package
Work closely with billing staff to ensure billable
clinics are marked billable
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Not all facilities are aware that institutional fees can be
billed for pharmacy clinics
Generic recommendations
Face to face – mark billable
 Non Face to Face – mark nonbillable
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Mark clinic nonbillable to avoid coding staff misinterpreting a
note and thinking it is a face to face, billable clinic
Clinic Nonbillable - VISTA
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Select MCCR System Definition Menu Option: FLTP Flag Stop
Codes/Clinics for Third Party
Flag Stop Codes and Clinics for Third Party Billing
===============================================================================
FOR THIRD PARTY BILLING, THIS OPTION IS USED TO SET UP:
1. INDIVIDUAL OR A GROUP OF STOP CODES OR CLINICS AS:
a. NON-BILLABLE OR BILLABLE.
A Stop/Clinic is assumed billable until it is flagged as non-billable.
b. IGNORED BY THE AUTO BILLER. Stops the auto biller from creating
bills for specified billable Stops/Clinics.
2. ALL CLINICS TO BE:
a. IGNORED BY THE AUTO BILLER. Stops the auto biller from creating bills
for ALL clinics. Should only be used if the outpatient auto biller
is on but only a small number of Clinics should be auto billed.
b. BILLED BY THE AUTO BILLER. Resets all Clinics to be auto billed.
Use of this option will have an immediate effect on your billing operations
so you should have your work pre-planned before using this option.
Clinic Nonbillable – VISTA (cont.)
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Select one of the following:
S
STOP CODES
C
CLINICS
A
ALL CLINICS
Enter your choice: CLINICS
You may now enter the clinics that you wish to flag. Please note
all clinics that you select will be assigned the same effective
date and billable status and auto bill status.
Select CLINIC: DERMATOLOGY-TELEPHONE
Next CLINIC:
Is this clinic Non-Billable for Third Party Billing? YES
Please enter the date this should become effective: 010108 (JAN 01, 2008)
DERMATOLOGY-TELEPHONE
Effective Jan 01, 2008 the above clinics will be Non-billable
and will NOT have bills created by the Third Party auto biller.
Is this correct, is it okay to proceed and file these entries? YES
Filing these CLINIC entries... . done
Where to Begin?
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Document high volume clinical activities at your site
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Count or noncount for each activity
Clinic set-up
Check stop codes of current clinics
 Set-up clinics for high volume activities that do not have a
clinic currently (inpatient!)
 Select appropriate CPT codes for the clinics
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Develop policies/business rules for activities that do
not require consult
Educate staff – encounters, how to document
Listen for issues/concerns from staff
Questions to Ask Yourself
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Are my current stop codes correct?
Do face to face visit clinics have 160 in the primary?
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If 160 isn’t the primary, why? (telephone, hbpc, other)
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If cannot be in primary, is it in the secondary?
Are nonface to face, nontelephone visits, 160
primary and 697 secondary (to avoid copay)?
Is everything being documented in these clinics truly
count (history taken, clinical decision, documented)?
Are we using the appropriate CPT codes?
Should no longer be using 99211
 Face to face – use MTM codes!
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Questions to Ask Yourself
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Are my face to face clinics marked billable in the
MCCF package?
 Does
my billing/coding staff know they can bill
institutional fees for these pharmacy visits?
 Are the nonface to face visits marked nonbillable?
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What are we doing that is “count” workload that
we aren’t documenting?
 Clinics
 NFs
 Inpatient
(med rec, kinetics, anticoagulation, etc)
Clinic Set-Up
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Questions?
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Count? (3 ’s required)
1. Medical history taken? 
2. Clinical decision making? 
3. Documented? 
Screen Captures:
Inpatient Encounters
It is imperative that the location be changed to the
appropriate location (inpatient clinic) for inpatient notes
*Disclaimer: Facility variation may occur
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Inpatient Encounter Example
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The following slides are the steps to complete an
encounter for an inpatient interaction
It is imperative that the location be changed to
the appropriate location (inpatient clinic) for
inpatient notes
Click on the location box directly next to the patient data box, found in the upper 41
left corner of the screen. ***For INPATIENT NOTES, the location MUST be
changed FIRST in order for productivity/workload to be credited to the clinic.
Location block
Click on “Clinic Appointments” if appointment exists and select it to link the
note to existing appointment.
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If no appointment exists, click on NEW VISIT, enter name of clinic (location)
and time of appointment (encounter).
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Click on NEW NOTE, enter name of note title you wish to use. ****If there is a consult associated
with visit, choose “CONSULT” title to close consult at same time note is written. With active
consults, an additional dialog box will appear at bottom of Progress Note Properties box.
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This is the area that consults will appear, if applicable
Write note as you normally would.
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Click “Action, Sign Note Now”. For NON-COUNT clinics, you will NOT be prompted for
encounter data. Sign note. You MUST click encounter button after signing note.
***COUNT CLINICS: Encounter data MUST be entered before SIGNING note.
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Click ACTION
Sign Note Now
Click encounter button after note is signed
Click encounter button and enter encounter data as usual. Be sure to answer service
connected and rated disabilities questions, visit type and/or procedure and diagnosis code
to satisfy encounter. This will provide DSS with workload.
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Clinical Video Telehealth
http://vaww.telehealth.va.gov/telehealth/index.asp
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Clinical Video Telehealth
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Two clinic appointments must be made for these
visits:
 One
appointment at the patient site with the
following secondary DSS Identifiers (stop code):
 Patient
site (originating site) = 690
 One
appointment at the provider site. The clinic
setups will have the following secondary DSS
Identifiers (stop codes):
 Provider
site (distant site) – same station number = 692
(#1 above)
 Provider site (distant site) – different station number =
693 (situations #2 and #3)
Care Coordination/Home Telehealth
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Program growth, frequent changes
Detailed guidance on documentation coming out soon
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http://vaww.telehealth.va.gov/telehealth/index.asp
Coding requires CCHT codes in primary and
secondary position
 Common
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
674, 683, 685, 686
Common secondary stop codes
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primary stop codes
179, 371, 684
Due to lack of pharmacy specific codes, excellent
place to use alpha codes
Care Coordination/Home Telehealth
*Work with local billing staff for appropriate codes!
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Patient Site: Use the CPT/HCPCS (Healthcare Common Procedure Coding
System) code Q3014, which stands for the Telehealth Originating Site
Facility Fee. The thinking is this nominal fee supports the facility (equipment,
power, heating, cooling, lighting) providing the patient a place to access
care via telehealth. This is the only code that is appropriate for the patient
site. For activities performed by clinical staff at the patient site, (e.g., blood
pressure, weight, temperature) a separate face to face clinic visit should be
set up for documentation. Questions regarding eligibility, Agent Orange
and ionizing radiation, need to be answered to complete checkout.
Provider site: Use the appropriate CPT code as if the procedure/service
was performed face-to-face, but use the realtime telehealth modifier. For
example, 97112-GT where CPT 97112 designates "Neuromuscular ReEducation" and HCPCS modifier code GT designates "Realtime" or
"Interactive" telehealth.
CCHT Stop Code Pairs
Current
Clinic Location
Examples
CCHT SCREENING OFC
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CCHT SCREENING TC
or
CCHT SCREENING PHONE
or
CCHT SCREENING PH
Prim.
Stop
Code
Sec.
Stop
Code
Note Titles
Templates
371
CCHT
Screening
Consult
CCHT
Screening
Consult
Template
685
686
Definition
This consult document is used to document
initial evaluation for enrollment WHETHER
OR NOT the patient is actually enrolled.
NOTE: Use to close consult
This document contains patient education,
skill validation and installation for
technology on all CCHT patients.
CCHT TECH EDUCATION
CCHT INTERVENTION
674
686
685
684
CCHT Tech
Education
Note
CCHT
Intervention
Note
CCHT Tech
Education
Template
CCHT
Intervention
Template
NOTE: ALWAYS attached to the coding
pair 674/685 (Non-Count)
Use as often as needed when re-educating
the patient on technology, changing or
troubleshooting technology or adding new
peripheral devices.
Training/Education on technology only.
This progress note contains information
about all interventions generated from
symptoms, behavior and knowledge data
gathered from daily monitoring by a nonvideo messaging device.
NOTE: Use ONLY to document patient
encounters in response to alerts from
vendor data- not to be used as generic note,
and not to be used with VIDEO visit.
This progress note contains information
about the monthly monitoring of patients
assigned non-video messaging devices.
CCHT MONTHLY MONITOR-X
CCHT VIDEO VISIT
683
685
685
179
CCHT
Monthly
Monitor Note
CCHT Video
Visit Note
CCHT
Monthly
Monitor
Template
CCHT Video
Visit
Template
NOTE: Document using this note title once
each calendar month on EVERY
messaging patient regardless of other
patient interactions during the month. Not to
be used for patients on video technology
that does not have messaging functionality.
This document contains information about
any visit over a video device (tele-Monitor/
Videophone) that meets required criteria for
secondary Stop Code xxx179
NOTE: Must meet certain documentation
requirements of replicating a face-to-face
visit or it can’t be coded as 179