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FBO DAILY - FEDBIZOPPS ISSUE OF APRIL 20, 2014 FBO #4530
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U -- 618-14-2-170-0114 2 Coding Documentation Inperson Training - Attachment

Notice Date

4/18/2014
 

Notice Type

Attachment
 

NAICS

611430 — Professional and Management Development Training
 

Contracting Office

Department of Veterans Affairs;VA Black Hills HCS;Fort Meade Campus;113 Comanche Rd.;Fort Meade SD 57741
 

ZIP Code

57741
 

Solicitation Number

VA26314R2449
 

Response Due

5/6/2014
 

Archive Date

8/13/2014
 

Point of Contact

Pamela P Phillips
 

E-Mail Address

0-7020<br
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

This is a PRESCOLICITATION NOTICE only. No proposals are being requested or accepted with this notice. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR PROPOSALS OR PRICING AND NO CONTRACT SHALL BE AWARDED FROM THIS NOTICE. This notice shall not be construed as a solicitation or as an obligation on the part of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The solicitation will be posted on the Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) website on approximately April 22, 2014. Applicable NAICS code is 611430, Professional and Management Development Training, 100% Small Business set aside. Contracting Office Address: VA Black Hills Health Care System, 113 Comanche Road, Ft. Meade, SD, 57741. Point of Contact: Pamela Phillips, Contract Specialist; Pamela.phillips@va.gov The VA Black Hills Health Care System (NCO 23) is seeking sources to provide ICD-10 Coding Training and documentation improvement per the following statement of work: Statement of Work Coding and Documentation Improvement Review and Training 1.INTRODUCTION: The Minneapolis VA HCS Business Office is charged with auditing, monitoring, improving and educating providers and coders for correct coding of services, diagnoses, and procedures, and on complete and accurate documentation to ensure the correct coding, as well as for communication, billing and funding of inpatient care. A VHA compliance requirement is to perform external chart audits and the goal is to improve documentation to accurately reflect care and services provided in order to more accurately and completely code and report these services. In addition, the complete and accurate documentation of diagnoses, procedures and services performed is critical to the appropriate optimal funding. Clinical documentation is the basis on which MVAHCS is funded, either through VERA or third party insurance. Physicians must be educated on documentation requirements and how their documentation impacts our financial bottom line and qualify indicators of the hospital. Financial potency is dependent on what is documented not what was performed. 2.SPECIFIC TASKS: The contractor will provide on-site training of an overview of ICD-10, highlighting the main guidelines and documentation strategies physicians need to know to provide the specificity required from ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS. The Contractor shall provide to the medical staff information based on medical doctorate training and CMS rules and regulations techniques and verbiage appropriate to improve documentation and understanding patient's encounter and allow more accurate coding by coding staff. Training will be provided to specific medical and clinical specialties with focus on documentation requirements that are specialty specific with all general documentation requirements that are pertinent to the audience. The contractor will provide coders ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS training to include documentation requirements to code to highest level of specificity with additional guidance in order for coders to improve accuracy of coding and to query physicians appropriately to obtain more definitive documentation to assign more accurate codes that reflect the complex care delivered. The Contractor will be highly skilled, experienced and established in the medical field, (MD, DO, CNS/NP, PA, RN) in the education of physician level providers and medical coders. The Contractor will have comprehensive knowledge on ICD-10-CM and ICD-10 PCS (ICD-10, difference to ICD-9, and comprehensive knowledge of documentation requirements to code specifically for ICD-10. The contractor will have a thorough knowledge of VERA classification documentation requirements. The contractor will educate coding staff on identifying opportunities to query physicians for more complete and detailed documentation In order to assign more accurate diagnostic and procedure codes. The accurate and complete documentation of patient services will allow the coding staff to more accurately and completely assign diagnostic codes to services. The accurate and complete assignment of diagnostic codes classifies patients in the most appropriate DRG and/or VERA pricing group. Service will commence within 30 days of award, and training completed no later than 90 days after completion of initial training. 3.DEFINITIONS: CMS - Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services DRG - Diagnostic Related Group VERA - Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation VISN - Veterans Integrated Service Networks ICD- International Classification of Disease CPT - Current Procedural Terminology 4.GOVERNMENT-FURNISHED PROPERTY AND INFORMATION: The Minneapolis VA will provide the Contractor the option of using certain Government owned facilities and utilities for use only in connection with this contract. This will include classroom/conference room, audio-visual equipment as needed, computer hardware and software as needed, workstation. The Minneapolis VA will provide electronic patient medical records. 5.CONTRACTOR FUNISHED ITEMS: The contractor shall provide all necessary instructional materials and handouts. The contractor shall provide a medical doctor for chart review and for education of medical and coding staff. The contractor will abide by HIPAA, Privacy and Security rules. The Physician Contractor will be responsible for providing oral and written recommendations on findings to medical center leadership, medical staff, and Business Office staff.
 

Web Link

FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/VA/VABHHCS568/VABHHCS568/VA26314R2449/listing.html)
 

Document(s)

Attachment
 

File Name: VA263-14-R-2449 VA263-14-R-2449_1.docx (https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=1317043&FileName=VA263-14-R-2449-000.docx)

Link: https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=1317043&FileName=VA263-14-R-2449-000.docx

 

Note: If links are broken, refer to Point of Contact above or contact the FBO Help Desk at 877-472-3779.
 

Record

SN03342713-W 20140420/140418234620-ec04bd3a3d02a031a3f2f4c7c65fe3be (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

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