SPARCS 2011 Overview of Training Presentations

SPARCS 101A

Intended audience: Persons who need a refresher to the SPARCS submission process.

  • Data Security
    • Protecting data
    • HCS Security
    • Upload permissions
    • Sending data
  • The Upload Process
    • Uploading your data
    • Wait for response
    • test, test, test
    • submission failures
  • Submission Results
    • Submission results
    • Edit reports
    • Error files
    • How many records passed
    • Submission failures
  • Correcting your errors
    • How to make corrections
    • Error codes
    • E-Code reporting
    • Warnings
  • Retrieving Reports and Data
    • Retrieving an old Edit report
    • Submission History Report
    • But I submitted all my records!
    • What records does SPARCS not have?

SPARCS EODC

Intended audience: Persons who will be required to send the New Expanded Outpatient Data to SPARCS

  • EODC Overview
    • Change of Law in 2006 to collect Outpatient Data
    • EODC Project implemented in 3 phases
    • What data elements will SPARCS be requiring?
    • What data elements SPARCS will not be requiring.
    • Where can I get information on the OP data requirements?
    • Revenue Codes
    • Edit Report Data Classifications
    • How will this affect my Submission Compliance?
  • Edit changes
    • 72 hour rule
    • Race requirement
    • Ethnicity requirement
    • Payer ID Edits
    • Claim Filing Indicator and SOP
  • New Data elements and values
    • Date of service
    • Medicaid rate code
    • Condition code P7
    • New claim filing indicators
    • New Appendices
  • File structure changes
    • Non covered and covered days
    • Diagnosis codes & Ecode structure change in HI segments
    • Payor ID size larger
    • Units of service

SPARCS Quality

Intended audience: Persons who are interested in SPARCS Data Quality.

  • Stoplight Report - Quality Report Section
    • Source of Payment Typology (SoP)
    • Homeless
    • UPIN
    • POA
    • ICR-SPARCS Comparison
    • Handout #1 - Stoplight Report
    • Handout #2 - Crosswalk of new SOP codes and SPARCS Claim Filing Indicator

Portions of the above reports include - Purpose of report, Frequency of report, Data Elements used, Criteria for maintaing Quality and meeting Thresholds, why improve reporting?, how to improve reporting, samples of reports

  • ICR-SPARCS Payer Comparison Report - Performance Metrics
    • Purpose of Report
    • Data elements used
    • Frequency of report
    • Table II - Data element crosswalk-SPARCS Output Payer Type, SPARCS Source of Payment/Claim Filing Indicator, and ICR Line Number Description
    • Criteria for maintaining Quality
    • Sample of reports for Inpatient, Ambulatory Surgery, Emergency Department
    • What the discrepancies are, and where they might be.
    • What's next?