Income-generating coding reviews

"The CHKS audit has been invaluable, providing evidence in support of our plans for clinical involvement in coding for all specialities"
Carol Toogood, General Manager
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

A recent CHKS Clinical Coding Review identified £52,000 of missed income for a trust from only 275 sets of casenotes.  With income recovery high on Trusts' Board agenda and accuracy of information vital to service planning and performance management, CHKS has designed an innovative and totally cost-neutral clinical coding review, to improve coding practice and to identify where your trust is losing income.

Our experienced team analyses your data and selects cases with potentially incomplete coding.  We recode the cases and allocate them to more accurate HRG categories, so that you can resubmit the costs to commissioners to ensure your trust receives appropriate reimbursement for all the care provided (within the "flex and freeze" periods).

Benefits:

• Identifies income recovery for your trust
• Ensures you are paid by commissioners for all the care you provide
• Improves accuracy of clinical information and data quality for service planning and performance management and helps underpin the EPR (electronic patient record)
• Identifies problems so that you understand and can implement changes for sustained improvements and prevent reoccurrence
• By working collaboratively with your coding managers, we ensure the department's input and support
• Our charge is based on a percentage of income recovered so there is no financial risk to you

We can undertake a single review to demonstrate immediate gains, or a series of reviews to identify sustained benefits and to monitor quality improvements.  We can even assess and formally accredit your coding department against best practice standards to give you added piece of mind that the service is providing you with the most accurate information possible and giving external validation of your services for your commissioners.