Intellicure Facility Acuity Scoring Tool™ (iFAST)

Development of the Intellicure Facility Acuity Scoring Tool ™ (iFAST) began after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS formerly HCFA) released the Medicare Prospective Payment System for Hospital Outpatient Departments in the Federal Register on April 7, 2000. On pages 18450 – 18451, CMS instructed the use of 31 CPT codes to reflect the work performed by hospital outpatient departments. They elaborated with the following:

“We realize that while these HCPCS codes appropriately represent different levels of physician effort, they do not adequately describe non-physician resources. However, in the same way that each HCPCS code represents a different degree of physician effort, the same concept can be applied to each code in terms of the differences in resource utilization. Therefore, each facility should develop a system for mapping the provided services or combination of services furnished to the different levels of effort represented by the codes.”

What would the ideal system look like? Methods which accurately assess work should result in a Normal distribution of charges with level three as the most frequent. In response to the HOPPS notification, Intellicure, Inc. began developing a patient acuity and work based scoring system in 2000 which would automatically calculate the facility’s level of service according to these rules. The Intellicure EMR provided for automatic calculation of the work score.

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Intellicure Facility Acuity Scoring Tool™
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