The Clinical Practice Team includes experts trained and with extensive experience in clinical psychology, nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and medical coding. Collectively, their clinical experience spans the continuum of primary care, acute care, rehabilitation, home health and hospice, community and public health, and military settings. Areas of specialization include behavioral health, neurodevelopmental disability, medical coding, healthcare quality, quality reporting using the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS), LEAN Six Sigma methodology, project management, nursing professional development, and healthcare leadership. The team holds a total of eleven advanced certifications.

With healthcare and related industry trends constantly evolving, Econometrica’s experts use a variety of research and evaluation methods to provide innovative and personalized approaches for each client. Subject matter experts are assigned to each project based on an alignment of their expertise with the project purpose. We employ human-centered design to ensure that our systems resonate and are tailored to client needs. Our Clinical Practice Team members also have a deep understanding of the patient experience. They incorporate the principles of patient-centered care when providing project consultation and designing training.

Our staff members knows medical coding based on three main code books: Current Procedural Terminology CPT^®, International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) Code Set, and Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) Level II.

Our capabilities include:

• Ability to identify the purpose of the CPT^®, ICD-10-CM, and HCPCS Level II code books.
• Understanding and application of the official ICD-10-CM coding guidelines.
• Applying coding conventions when assigning diagnoses and procedure codes.
• Identifying the information in appendices of the CPT^® code book.
• Explaining the determination of the levels of evaluation and management (E/M) services.
• Coding a wide variety of patient services using CPT^®, ICD-10-CM, and HCPCS Level II codes.
• Listing the major features of HCPCS Level II codes.
• Providing practical application of coding operative reports and evaluation and management services.

• Developed tailored technical assistance plans for CMS, including working with states in accessing and using CMS data sources under the State Data Resource Center (SDRC) contract. Our team responded to 11,000 inquiries from states and territories during the life of this contract.
• Facilitated more than 250,000 provider impacts based on trainings focused on understanding and complying with the IMPACT Act on the Post-Acute Care Training contracts.
• Developed three quality measures endorsed by the National Quality Forum under our Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) contract.