Ashford gets ready for maternity PbR
Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust has turned to digital pen technology to capture the information it needs for the maternity pathway payment system due in April.
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Monitor to base tariff on PLICS
Monitor wants to shift the basis on which Payment by Results prices are calculated away from average costs and towards the actual cost of treating individual patients.
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Auditors urge CCGs to improve PbR data
Clinical commissioning groups should improve the quality of data used for payments to NHS hospitals by making regular audits and reports part of new provider contracts, the Audit Commission has said.
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Poor data stops mental health tariff
The government has delayed plans to implement a national Payment by Results tariff for adult mental health services.
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HSCIC renews concerns about data quality
A new report published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre reveals significant error rates in Payment by Results data and thousands of duplicate patient records.
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Audit Commission wants new datasets
The Audit Commission has criticised existing NHS datasets for failing to reflect what is happening to patients.
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CACI wins Luton and Dunstable BI deal
Luton and Dunstable Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has signed a deal with CACI for a data warehouse, business intelligence and patient level costing system.
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One in ten hospital episodes miscoded
Almost one in ten hospital episodes is incorrectly coded, according to an analysis carried out by the Audit Commission. The spending watchdog’s analysis of more than 50,000 episodes of care, equating to approximately £73m of expenditure under Payment by Results, found an average error rate of 9.4% – with error rates across trusts ranging from […]
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PbR held back by NHS data failures
A new report into the progress of Payment by Results (PbR) has concluded that problems with the quality and timeliness of data remain significant barriers to the policy having more impact on NHS activity and efficiency. The Audit Commission report, The Right Result,singles out the Secondary Uses Service (SUS), developed by NHS Connecting for Health and […]
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‘Upcoding’ a hazard as PbR pressure grows
Clinical coders are coming under pressure to ‘upcode’ to maximise income under Payment by Results, a conference heard last week. Sue Eve-Jones, director of the Professional Association of Clinical Coders, told a conference organised by the Health Service Journal in London: “I am being given direct evidence of the pressure on managers who are being […]
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