How CHKS has helped Spire improve the accuracy of coding within its hospitals and is ensuring prompt payment from the NHS
How CHKS has helped Spire improve the accuracy of coding within its hospitals and is ensuring prompt payment from the NHS
2 PagesCase Study How CHKS has helped Spire improve the accuracy of coding within its hospitals and is ensuring prompt payment from the NHS Background Spire Healthcare is a private hospital group with 38 private hospitals throughout the UK. In 2012 it saw 1.1 million patients for outpatient appointments and every year it treats over 930,000 patients. It has been working with CHKS, who are part of Capita Health and Wellbeing over the last six years to improve the accuracy of its coding. Martin Rennison, Director NHS Business, explains how this has improved confidence amongst NHS commissioners and also benefitted Spire’s bottom line. What challenges were you facing? Six years ago, we found our business with the NHS was increasing. There was and still is a very strong focus on data qual
