Five Tips for Physicians Managing HEDIS Tasks

Five Tips for Physicians Managing HEDIS TasksWhen you are amidst HEDIS season, it can feel a bit like you are back in school, with a report card with measuring your ability to serve your patients and avoid costs that are unnecessary. These grades however, mean much more when ranking your ability to care for patients, than your proficiency in advanced calculus – which you still haven’t used to this day! Healthcare plan representatives gather information by sending auditors to physicians’ practices and then use these grades to determine your quality of care level. The process can be intimidating, and an auditor showing up unannounced on site when you are unprepared, can really affect your ratings. In order to keep your marks high, consider utilizing these tips to managing HEDIS tasks at your practice.

Keep up to date on HEDIS news & information

Everything else aside, keeping up with HEDIS performance measurement standards and requirements is essential. You must know what areas will be analyzed and what you can do to ensure that your practice is up to standard. It is important to know what areas to focus on, and which areas count for less of your rating.

Insert compliance with HEDIS into job descriptions

You want to make sure that people coming into your practice know about HEDIS, and how to manage it. By putting it in the job description, it will bring highly qualified members to your team.

Do regular audits internally

They say that practice makes perfect, and this is no different. If you want to be prepared for an auditor to show up on site, consider practicing your own internal audits on a regular basis. When you are caught up with an influx of patients or intriguing diagnoses, the daily management of HEDIS data can slip through the cracks. To ensure that this doesn’t happen and that your staff is keeping up with everything, conduct random audits yourself, with an incentive for your staff to pass with flying colors. This will only help you sail through the process when an official auditor arrives.

Develop a way to track HEDIS

If you develop a HEDIS tracking form, it reminds you and your staff to look into areas of health care maintenance with your patients, while also recording what has been done. This can be helpful because it keeps all the information on one sheet, so no page flipping is necessary.

Appoint a “HEDIS expert”

All of this is meaningless if you’re not sure what you’re even doing when it comes to HEDIS. That’s where Chart Review Nurses comes into play. If you want nurses trained in HEDIS management, we have them! We have a team of highly trained and quality HEDIS nurses that can serve as your HEDIS expert. Our nurses are screened, trained, and only the best are chosen to represent our company.

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