All tablesmentioned in the Fee Basis guidebookare storedin an Excel file. Presence of this software on the One-VA TRM does not equate to designation as a Class 1 National Software product and MUST NOT be assumed to comply with all VA programming standards, namespacing and interface control agreement standards, data management standards, documentation standards, information assurance standards, security standards and 508 compliance standards. The travel payments data contains reimbursements for particular travel events (TVLAMT). Hospice also appears to be billed monthly, with longest length of stay for a single hospice invoice of 31 days. [ SFeeVendor] table. Chapter 6 contains more information about how to access these data. If a Veteran has only Medicare Part B or has both Medicare Parts A and B, no VA payment may be made. To enter and activate the submenu links, hit the down arrow. The payment category (PAYCAT) is missing for all records in the inpatient services (ANCIL) file. [FeeVendor] table. Primary keys are denoted by (PK) and foreign keys are denoted by (FK). 3. Claims processed after March 17, 2022, will be reviewed and aligned with the federal ruling which prohibits secondary payment on emergency care copayments and deductibles. Non-VA CareP.O. Inpatient care beyond the time when a patient is stabilized and can be transferred to a VA facility, except where a VA facility is not feasibly available. The PHR file contains information on the cost-related data associated with the prescription, while the PHARMVEN file contains information on the vendor associated with the prescription. To enter and activate the submenu links, hit the down arrow. This technology can integrate with and alter database technologies. There is a CPT field in the inpatient files, but this is always missing; hospitals do not use CPT codes to bill. Important: The mailing address below only pertains to disability compensation claims. A missing value of the primary diagnosis code should therefore be treated as truly missing. The Fee Basis files primary purpose is to record VA payments to non-VA providers. The Veterans Emergency Care Fairness Act (Public Law 111-137), signed February 1, 2010, authorizes VA as a secondary payer to third party liability insurance not related to health insurance. 21. SAS data have limited patient demographic data. In the SAS data, the provider component of the inpatient stay is captured in the ancillary file. Information from this system resides on and transmits through computer systems and networks funded by the VA. Your monthly premium for Part B may go up 10% for each full 12-month period that you could have had Part B, but didn't sign up for it. DART is a workflow application that guides users through the request by collecting the appropriate documents, distributing documentation to reviewers, and assisting in communication between requestors and reviewers. This most likely reflects a low frequency of surgery rather than missing data. All instances of deployment using this technology should be reviewed by the local ISSO (Information System Security Officer) to ensure compliance with. Table 3 lists their file names and gives a general description of their contents.10. Unscheduled trips may be reimbursed for the return mileage only. SQL tables can be joined through linking keys. With few exceptions these variables will be of little interest to researchers. Other Health Insurance (OHI) and Explanation of Benefits (EOBs), Any other document type normally sent via paper in support of a Veteran unauthorized emergency claim. Information from this system A claims scrubber software program is run to ensure completeness and to locate possible errors. Therefore, to make a complete assessment of the payments for inpatient cases, researchers should evaluate the outpatient files along with the inpatient and ancillary files. Persons looking to classify patients Veterans by race and ethnicity are encouraged to read VHA guidance available on the Data Reports page of the VHA Data Portal (available on the intranet at http://vaww.vhadataportal.med.va.gov/Resources/DataReports.aspx). The FMS disbursed amount is the payment amount plus any interest payment. Payments received from a Veterans private health insurance carrier are credited towards any applicable VA copayments, reducing all or part of the Veterans out-of-pocket expenses. The vendor identity can be found through the FeeVendorSID or the FeeVendorIEN variables in SQL. All observations for this particular patient ID, STA3N and VEN13N where the admission date comes on or after the admission date of the first record AND the discharge date comes on or before the temporary end date are considered to be part of the same inpatient stay. To access the menus on this page please perform the following steps. [FeeInpatInvoiceICDProcedure] table. We are the third-party administrator for the VA CCN for Regions 1, 2 and 3, encompassing 36 states, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia. Make sure the services provided are within the scope of the authorization. Unauthorized user attempts Box 202117Florence SC 29502, Logistics Health, Inc.ATTN: VA CCN Claims328 Front St. S.La Crosse WI 54601, Secure Fax: 608-793-2143(Specify VA CCN on fax). In FY05, DRG001 means CRANIOTOMY- >17 W CC, compared to HEART TRANSPLANT OR IMPLANT OF HEART ASSIST SYSTEM W MCC for DRG001 in FY15 DRG001. 16. The majority of claims, 99%, were processed within 2 years, with the exception of pharmacy data in FY 2004 and FY2008. However, Veterans may be responsible for a VA copayment depending on their assigned Priority Group. Mark Smith and Adam Chow were the authors of the original HERC guidebook, upon which this document builds. Note: records with status= R can have missing values for the variables vistapatkey and vistaauthkey, depending on whether or not these were linked before rejecting as a re-route to HAC. Some encounters have multiple procedures that are paid as a single encounter; other encounters have multiple procedures and there are separate payments for each procedure. The vendor identity can be found through the VENDID or VEN13N variables in SAS. In this chapter, we discuss general aspects of Fee Basis data. A Non-VA Medical Care claim is defined by four elements: The remainder of section 7.4 details payment rules as of early 2015. Please review the Where To Send Claims and the Where To Send Documentation sections below for mailing addresses and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) details. If a researcher decides to use FPOV, please note that an FPOV value of 52 indicates ED visit for persons whose care is covered under the Millennium Bill and should thus be included in evaluating ED care. 3. Second, there are some cases where the disbursed amount is $0, while the payment amount is greater than $0; these are cases in which the payment was cancelled and the true cost of care is thus $0. Additionally, we found 0.94% of records were approved Choice claims (e.g., records where SPECIALPROVCAT= CHOICE and STATUS= A (approved)). U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Accessed October 16, 2015. After a claim is submitted electronically it must be entered manually into a Non-VA Medical Care approval system. In SQL, the patient ID will be the PatientICN or PatientSID, and the admit date is the admission date.. Operating Systems Supported by the Technology. Box 30780, Tampa FL 33630-3780. The disbursed amount should be used to calculate the cost of care, except in the case where disbursed amount is missing. Table 9 lists a number of financial variables the SQL data contain. Providers are not required to accept VA payment in all cases. The charge for an ambulance trip to a non-VA hospital may be paid through the Non-VA Medical Care program if the medical center determines that the hospital services meet the criteria for an unauthorized claim or a 38 U.S.C 1725 (Mill Bill) claim, or if the patient died while in route to the facility. [FeePrescription] tables. Authorized care claims must be submitted within 6 years of the date of service, service-connected emergency care claims must be submitted within 2 years of the date of service, and non-service-connected emergency care claims must be submitted within 90 days of the date of service/discharge. 4. 8. [FeePharmacyInvoice] table contains information on vendor, amount claimed, and amount paid. Through patient identifier and travel date (TravelPaymentDate), one can link these payments to inpatient and outpatient encounters. [FeeInpatInvoice], and a foreign key in the [Fee].[FeeInpatInvoiceICDProcedure]. NPI and Medicare IDs have an M to M relationship. A primary key is a key that is unique for each record. Veterans who meet certain criteria may be eligible for mileage reimbursement for travel to and from VA or Non-VA care. [1] The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) was renamed the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Conversely, all stays should have at least one discharge diagnosis. However, there are data available regarding the category of visit. SQL Fee Basis files themselves contain limited patient demographic variables, but can be linked to other SQL data. See 38 USC 1725 and 1728.). VIReC. Some Non-VA Medical Care claims are rejected for untimeliness or lack of statutory authority. They do not represent all claims received during the year. The key field indicates which invoice they appeared on. Call: 988 (Press 1), U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs | 810 Vermont Avenue, NW Washington DC 20420. Community providers should remain in contact with the referring VA Medical Center to ensure proper care coordination. (Anything), but would not cover any version of 7.5.x or 7.6.x on the TRM. Please see Section 2.1.4. for HERC advice about how to collapse multiple observations to evaluate the length and cost of a single inpatient stay. http://vaww.vhadataportal.med.va.gov/Resources/DataReports.aspx. Attention A T users. While there is limited information about the vendor available in the SAS datasets; the most comprehensive information about the vendor can be found in the SAS VEN and SAS PHARVEN datasets. VA Fee Basis Programs. Thus, researchers using later years of data should be aware that files are not static and will continue to be updated. more information please visit www.fsc.va.gov. In some cases it may appear that single encounters have duplicate payments. Multiple SQL tables contain these variables. All Choice claims are processed by VISN 15. (formerly known as VA Fee Basis or NonVA)-Community provider submits the claim and supporting documentation through their EDI provider services in . Available at: http://www.blogs.va.gov/VAntage/23201/va-implements-the-first-of-several-veterans-choice-program-eligibility-expansions/. Care provided to persons associated with a particular VA station can be found by selecting records by STA3N. The same cannot be said for DX2-DX25, however, as additional diagnosis codes are optional. To enter and activate the submenu links, hit the down arrow. SAS data are also available in CDW, but are currently limited to those VA employees with operational access. Researchers can read more information about accessing CDW on the VHA Data Portal (http://vaww.vhadataportal.med.va.gov/DataSources/CDW.aspx; VA intranet only). One can use the FeeInitialTreatmentSID variable in the FeeServiceProvided table to link to the Fee.FeeInitialTreatment table. The prescriptions filled by fee-basis pharmacies are often small quantities of medication to meet the patients emergency or short-term needs while a CMOP prescription is being filled. Those with access to the VA intranet can find a list of SQL fields on the CDW MetaData site. Before this time, data were entered by hand, and there was no easy way to tell whether the claim being entered was a duplicate one. As of July 2015, the current mileage reimbursement rate is 41.5 cents per mile. Those options are: Utilize HealthShare Referral Manager (HSRM) for referrals, authorizations and documentation exchange. Under the Veterans Choice Act, eligible veterans are able to obtain outpatient care outside the VA using their Choice Card. More detailed information about the vendor can be found in the SQL [Dim]. The DSS Fee Basis Claims System (FBCS) is a web-based claim management system. [FeeInpatInvoice], [Fee]. There are also variables pertaining to Veteran geographic information, particularly ZIP, HOMECNTY and HOMESTATE in the SAS data and County, Country, Province, and State in the SQL data. Chapter 6 provides information about how to access the Fee Basis data, while Chapter 7 provides information about the rules governing Fee Basis care. Up to FY2008 data, DXLSF is labeled as 1st Diagnosis Code. In FY2009 and on, DXLSF is labeled as the Admitting or Primary Diagnosis Code. In FY 2009 and later SAS data, there is also another variable, DX1, which is not present in SAS data prior to FY2009. SQL data contain both SCRSSN and SSN, but these data reside in the SPatient table at CDW, and cannot be accessed by researchers without the CDW data manager and IRB approval. ____________________________________________________________________________. [FeeVendor] table. These vendors are presumably hospital chains. If disbursed amount is missing, use payment amount instead. These clams contain charges and are known as claimed amounts (PAMTCL in SAS, ClaimedAmount in SQL). Address. and constitutes unconditional consent to review and action including (but not limited More information on the proper use of the TRM can be found on the This is in line with the way VHA Office of Productivity, Efficiency & Staffing (OPES) ascertains ED visit. Most ED visits will be identified through FPOV values of 32 or 33. Fee Basis Services - VetsFirst Sign up to receive the VA Provider Advisor newsletter. Researchers evaluating care over time may want to use the DRG variable. [FeeInpatInvoiceICDProcedure] table. The Medicare ID is missing if the payment is determined via a different mechanism (e.g., a contract). In SAS data, there is also a primary service area variable (HOMEPSA) that indicates the station to which the Veterans residence is assigned based on geography. Fee Basis Services. Here, ICDProcedureSID is a primary key in the [Dim]. Researchers will need to link to the Patient and SPatient domains to access this geographic information in the SQL data. Home Health Agencies billing with an OASIS Treatment number use the Prior Authorization segment for the TAC and the Referral Number segment on the 837I submission. Claims related to this care are considered authorized care. Given the variable definitions, it is not clear whether DX1 or DXLSF is the better choice to determine primary reason for inpatient stay. Each prescription record has a fill date and a patient identifier (either PatientICN or scrambled social security number). The Fee Card (VET) file contains only summary payment figures by month, although researchers can match the records to other data by SCRSSN and other identifiers. Money collected by VA from private health insurance carriers is returned back to the VA medical center providing the care. DSS Fee Basis Claims Systems (FBCS) - oit.va.gov This service communicates via native SQL Server 2005 encrypted connections through the VA Wide Area Network (WAN). We present here one way to collapse records into a single inpatient stay, but users may wish to develop their own method specific to the research question at hand. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Interface. Accessed October 16, 2015. There are additional payments for direct medical education, capital-related costs, and other factors as appropriate. Treatment date correlates to covered from/to. A Fee table will contain a record for an ICD-9 code, whereas a DIM table will contain the possible values of that ICD-9 code. It can be difficult to identify the specific type of provider associated with Fee Basis care in the currently available national extracts of Fee Basis data. To file a claim for services authorized by VA, follow instructions included in the Submitting Claims section of the referral. Fee Purpose of Visit is the recommended way to evaluate the category of the visit. You will now be able to tab or arrow up or down through the submenu options to access/activate the submenu links. The Implementer of this technology has the responsibility to ensure the version deployed is 508-compliant. PDF VA Community Care - Veterans Affairs Below we describe the general types of information in both the SAS and SQL data. To enter and activate the submenu links, hit the down arrow. 2. 1-800-273-8255 (Press 1), U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs | 810 Vermont Avenue, NW Washington DC 20420. For example, if the Veteran had an Emergency Department (ED) visit and then was admitted to the hospital, this would be considered inpatient care. More than 99% of claims for inpatient, ancillary and outpatient care are processed within 2 years. Research requests for data from CDW/VINCI must be submitted via the Data Access Request Tracker (DART) application. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. [ICD] table, the latter of which contains a list of all possible ICD-9 codes. In some cases it may appear that single encounters have duplicate payments. Hit enter to expand a main menu option (Health, Benefits, etc). Electronic Data Interchange (EDI): Payer ID for medical claims is 12115. TriWest VA CCN ClaimsP.O. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Box 108851Florence SC29502-8851, Delta Dental of CaliforniaVA Community Care NetworkP.O. [Patient], [SPatient]. Using the Non-VA Medical Care data for research requires a basic understanding of laws and regulations that govern it. Billing & Insurance - New York/New Jersey VA Health Care Network Questions about non-VA care claims may be directed to the Fee Basis Unit between the hours of 8:00 a.m. Email Address Required. You may use VA Form 10-583 to fulfill this requirement. This act expands the non-VA care veterans were able to receive before the act was passed. MDCAREID is the Medicare OSCAR number, which is a hospital identifier. We are grateful for their cogent work. VA must be capable of linking submitted supporting documentation to a corresponding claim. Eligibility and claims submission information for emergent care will be provided after notification is made to the VA. Claims for emergent care not eligible for authorization upon notification, may be eligible for consideration as Unauthorized Care. Some vendors use centralized billing services located in other cities, in a few cases in other states. 3. . Available at: http://www.va.gov/opa/choiceact/documents/FactSheets/Veterans_Choice_Program_Eligibility_Details_August_1_Removal.pdf.. 3. For example, sta3n 589A5 will be found as 589. For There is a deductible of $3 per trip up to a limit of $18 per month. Assistance with claims is free and covers all state and federal veterans' programs. Not all of these variables appear in every utilization file. PatientIEN and PatientSID are found in the general Fee Basis tables. The SQL Fee Basis data at CDW and the SAS Fee Basis data at AITC are available for VA researchers following a standard approval process. If a claim is filed for an eligible episode of care, VA must pay the whole amount according to the payment rules noted above. Non-VA Medical Care data are available in SAS form at the Austin Information Technology Center (AITC) and in SAS form and SQL form through the VA Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW)/VA Informatics and Computing Infrastructure (VINCI). Chief Business Office. You can use NPI to link providers in VA and Medicare. visit VeteransCrisisLine.net for more resources. 988 (Press 1). This component is a service that communicates directly with the High Availability Controller (HAC) SQL database for syncing critical fee data back into the local FBCS MS SQL database. The 2015 update to the Fee Basis Medical Care guidebook describes for the first time the SQL Fee Basis files, and contains a host of information about how SAS versus SQL Fee Basis files differ. Gidwani R, Hong J, Murrell S. Fee Basis Data: A Guide for Researchers. 1. A valid receipt showing the amount paid for the prescription. Please switch auto forms mode to off. Because coding varies by station, users are encouraged to employ multiple variables in an effort to find all care associated with a particular setting or service type. Each table has only one primary key field. [OEFOIFService]and [Dim].[POWLocation]. Most nursing home care is billed monthly, so there is one claim for each month of nursing home stay. Types of VA Disability Claims | PTSD Lawyers - Berry Law VA intranet only: http://vaww.vhadataportal.med.va.gov/Resources/DataReports.aspx). Payment of ambulance transportation under 38 U.S.C. This guidebook describes characteristics of Fee Basis care data such as contents and missingness, and makes recommendations about its use for research purposes. There are often multiple observations per inpatient stay and multiple observations per outpatient encounter. 1. Fee Basis providers vary in how frequently they submit an invoice for Fee Basis care. A record is created only if there is a code on the invoice to be recorded. The Fee Basis files are stored in two formats: SAS and SQL. The Department of Veterans Affairs has implemented centralized mail processing (CM) for compensation claims to reduce incoming paper handling and shipping requirements. This guide was published in October 2015; the same month the United States switched from ICD-9 to ICD-10. 2. YESThis insurance is also known as: Veterans Administration. 1. Appendix E includes a list of SQL fields related to the type of care a patient receives. The 275 transaction process should not be utilized for the submission of any other documentation for authorized care. Paper claims and supporting documentation submitted to us are converted to Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) transactions. Fee-for-Service Providers | DMAS - Department of Medical - Virginia In most cases, if you don't sign up for Part B when you are first eligible, you'll have to pay a late enrollment penalty. There is another category of Fee Basis care that is considered unauthorized care. If you are in crisis or having thoughts of suicide, You are strongly encouraged to electronically submit claims and required supporting documentation. For more detailed information, researchers should visit the VHA Office of Community Care website. Chief Business Office. VA Information Resource Center VHA Corporate Data Warehouse [webpage]. The data files in each fiscal year represent all claims processed in the FMS during the year. Hit enter to expand a main menu option (Health, Benefits, etc). The Non-VA Medical Care program covers the full range of medical and dental care, with these exceptions: Although VA utilization files contain many non-Veterans, Non-VA Medical Care files do not. Multiple SAS datasets have VENID and VEN13N. This component provides a front end for recognizing claim data through optical character recognition (OCR) software. Per the May 5th, 2015 memorandum from the VA Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) FIPS 140-2 Validate Full Disk Encryption (FOE) for Data at Rest in Database Management Systems (DBMS) and in accordance with Federal requirements and VA policy, database management must use Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 compliant encryption to protect the confidentiality and integrity of VA information at rest at the application level. a. VA Palo Alto, Health Economics Resource Center;November 2015. In order to gain access to the AITC mainframe, VA system users must contact their local Customer User Provisioning System (CUPS) Points of Contact (POC) and submit a VA Form 9957 to create a Time Sharing Option (TSO) account. New values may be added over time. NOTE: The processes outlined below are exclusive to supplying documentation for unauthorized emergent care. There are exceptions. 7. Details about the VA rules governing reimbursement can be found in Chapter 7 of this guidebook. The values of Adjustment Codes 1 and 2 (ADJCD1 and ADJCD2) explain the reason for non-payment. In SQL, the fields containing these data can be found in the FeeDispositionCode and FeeDispositionName Refer to Appendix C for a list of Fee Disposition Codes. This technology is not portable as it runs only on Windows operating systems. All instances of deployment using this technology should be reviewed to ensure compliance with. 1. This means the data were placed in the PIT and the claim was not paid through FBCS. If the Veteran has insurance, VA cannot pay even when the entire claim is less than the deductible. [ModeOfTransportation] and [Fee]. Working with the Veterans Health Adminstration: A Guide for Providers [online]. Florida Department of Veterans' Affairs | Connecting veterans to [FeeServiceProvided] tables. The funds are used to provide the best care possible to our Veterans. Patient type can take one of seven values: surgical; medical; home nursing; psych contract; psychiatric, neuro contract; or neurological. The mileage fee varies by type of ambulance service: ground, fixed wing, or rotary wing, POP zip code classification, and loaded mileage. These tables involve payments paid only through FBCS. E-fax: Documentation sent via email to Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) fax machine. In SQL, there are multiple patient identifiers, with the most useful being the PatientICN. From there, it is sent weekly to AITC in SAS format and nightly to CDW in SQL format. 3. SAS and SQL data are organized differently and contain different variables. You will now be able to tab or arrow up or down through the submenu options to access/activate the submenu links. 1725 may only be made if payment to the facility for the emergency care is authorized, or death occurred during transport. March 2015. Benefits Delivery at Discharge - Pre-Discharge - Veterans Affairs Other work by HERC researchers indicates that in the FY 2014 data, DXLSF and DX1 were identical 47% of the time. 2. In the outpatient data, each record represents a different procedure, as assessed through the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code. Va Fee Basis Program Claims Address - pijonajalin.weebly.com U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs | 810 Vermont Avenue, NW Washington DC 20420. Summary Fee Basis expenditure data are also available through the VHA Support Services Center (VSSC) intranet site, further information about accessing these summary data can be found in Chapter 6. PatientIEN and PatientSID are unique to a patient within a facility, but not unique to a patient across VA facilities (e.g., a patient who had visited multiple VA facilities will have multiple PatientIENs and multiple PatientSIDs). FSGLI: Family Servicemembers Group Life Insurance, Schedule of Payments for Traumatic Losses, S-DVI: Service-Disabled Veterans Life Insurance, Beneficiary Financial Counseling and Online Will, Lesbian Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Veterans, Pension Management Center (PMC) that serves your state, Claims Adjudication Procedures Manual/Live Manual, Link to subscribe to receive email notice of changes to the Live Manual. The status value A stands for accepted, meaning the claim was paid. The Choice Act represents one of the largest shifts in the organization and financing of healthcare in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in recent years. Updated August 26, 2015. To access the menus on this page please perform the following steps. However, investigation has confirmed these are partial payments made for a single encounter or procedure. Prior to the passage of this law on May 1, 2010, VA did not cover the cost of health care provided to dependent children, including newborns in situations where VA pays for the mothers obstetric care during the same stay. For some VEN13N, however, there is more than one MDCAREID.

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