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Welcome to the
2021 UDC Program
55 in
Monthly Tips and
Live Q&A Session
April 28th, 2021
12:15 – 12:45 p.m.
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April 2021 TOPICS
Discussion Topics
1. Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD)
• Be sure abnormal findings in ROS/PE are validated w/diagnosis
• Accurately report PVD when present
• If patient is also diabetic, link PVD to the diabetes
2. Medication Linking
• Medication list should always be paired with problem list
• In HPI or Assessment, indicate when a med is being used to treat a condition
• Meds that treat multiple conditions have to be linked
3. Quarter 4 2020 UDC Payments
• Payments are being finalized and will be sent out within the next 5 business
days
• Final 2020 Progress Reports will also be posted to NaviNet for practices to
access within the same period
4. UDC Portal Access
• All users needing access must be set up before they are able to login
• Access can be obtained by emailing UDCHelp@highmark.com providing the
Users Name, email address, NaviNet User Name, Practice info
• Users no longer needing access –email UDCHelp so they can be removed
5. UDC Best Practice Spotlight
• Lisa, Washington Health System– thank you!
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Cancer Documentation Examples
PVD validated but not supported:
Documented in problem list only and abnormal PE not correlated to
condition and not documented in assessment.
PVD Supported with current status:
3Highmark Monthly Coding Knowledge College
WHAT: Live session that will focus on Stroke and Vascular Disease to
review strategies for improving your documentation and coding for risk
adjustment.
WHEN: May 12, 2021 from 12:15-12:45 p.m.
WHERE: Zoom webinar. Registration required using this link (may have
to copy/paste into browser):
https://highmarkhealth.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fQiHpkxOQ7OA
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ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION:
This course will offer 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM for providers
and 0.5 CEU for coders
4UDC Best Practice Spotlight:
Lisa, Washington Health System
9 Offices
MA Membership: 2,151
IT department The list from IT is
generates a report used to identify Send the printed
each week listing all Highmark patients forms for the next
patients 65+ with an with an upcoming week to the office
appointment the next appointment. Print contact
week UDC eForms
Provider circles the Responses from
Forms are given to correct response on printed eForm are
the provider the day the UDC eForm. recorded and the
of the appointment Office contact sends medical record is
forms back to Lisa uploaded
• Every 2 weeks forms that were started and not
submitted are reviewed
• Every 2-3 weeks the UDC report is reviewed to UDC Form Submitted!
identify opportunities to resubmit forms
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without notice. Updated February 2021. Please see the UCD Program Manual for program details.Questions?
UDCHelp@highmark.com
This email address is available for practices to
submit any type of questions related to the UDC
Program – questions about general documentation
practices, specific documentation questions,
program rules, payments, specific questions about
a particular Member’s Form
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