About Clinical Coding Services
AusHealth offers a suite of services to handle all your clinical coding needs.
Clinical Coding: Unlock valuable revenues through AusHealth’s high-quality coding teams; working offsite or onsite, they’ll soon reduce your coding backlog.
Analytical Auditing Service: Are your clinical coding processes optimised? An AusHealth audit can quickly identify — and fix — your revenue leakages.
Clinical Information Transformation: Your data holds a trove of valuable information to help optimise your coding processes. Reveal these insights today!
Training and Education: Enhance your personnel assets by upskilling your coding staff.
Clinical Coding
AusHealth has teams of clinical coders and senior health information managers (HIMs). Certified, compliant and having at least three years’ experience, our coders are ready to reduce your backlog of codes and unlock sorely needed revenues.
Tailored to your needs: Our coding teams can be engaged to work offsite or onsite. Solutions can be provided on a permanent, long-term or short-term basis, to level out seasonal challenges as well as planned or unplanned staff shortages.
Fast, accurate and competitively priced: Our clinical coding teams’ error rates are less than 1%. Each coder clears 20 to 25 records per day — and they cost less than our nearest competitor.
Competent in all case mixes: Certified and knowledgeable, our coders have at least three years’ experience. They can code ALL case types including cardiovascular, ENT, general surgery, general medicine, oncology, ophthalmology, palliative care, plastic surgery, rheumatology and calculation of ICU hours.
Bottom-line benefits:
- Working offsite or onsite, AusHealth’s clinical coding teams relieve your organisation of the costs of sourcing accredited coding and managerial staff (presently in short supply across Australia)
- They are completely flexible to align with your requirements and volumes
- Thanks to their exceptional accuracy and efficiency, our coders will have an immediate impact on your backlog
- They cost less than our nearest competitor
- They relieve your organisation of having to deal with issues of errors and rejections
- They ensure you are current and compliant within the ever-changing world of clinical coding; they adhere to established classification conventions, standards and rules including the Australian Coding Standards (ACS).
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HOW CAN WE HELP?
Schedule an in-person or a virtual meeting to discuss our clinical coding services.
Call: 1-800 724 457
Coming Soon: AusHealth's AI-Powered Clinical Coding!
AusHealth is currently investing $1.3 million dollars in a revolutionary AI clinical coding and EMR system called CODEXA.
Our clients will be the first to enjoy next-level advantages when this technology is introduced – expect announcements in late 2025/early 2026!
For more information: CODEXA Updates
Analytical Auditing Service
AusHealth’s Analytical Auditing Service will help you better understand your organisation’s strengths and weaknesses when it comes to clinical coding.
The quality of clinical coding of acute inpatients can have a major impact on the Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) assigned to a patient. Too often, complexities including additional medications or diagnostic tests are not documented in a way that can be coded – with a negative impact on funding and the benchmarking of a hospital’s efficiency.
In partnership with our Chief Health Information Manager, you’ll unlock hidden potential by identifying revenue leakages, filling code gaps, boosting accuracy and improving performance.
Our Analytical Auditing Service uses 3M CodeFinder software to gather clinical data from across your organisation to provide valuable insights, including:
- coding gaps
- missing codes for coding/query
- knowledge gaps and targeted education opportunities for clinical staff.
Sources providing data for analysis might typically include:
- notes extracted from the Electronic Medical Records (EMR)
- pathology/medical imaging results
- medication data
- clinical observations.
The software, which understands the Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority’s NWAU model and DCCL values, runs hundreds of algorithms across all episodes of care to identify gaps and missing diagnosis codes – a far more effective means compared to the accepted audit practice of searching for key words in a single patient episode.
Bottom-line benefits:
- Better understand your organisation’s strengths and weaknesses when it comes to clinical coding
- Gain valuable insights into coding gaps and missing codes for coding/query
- Reveal knowledge gaps and better target education opportunities for clinical staff.
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HOW CAN WE HELP?
Schedule an in-person or a virtual meeting
Call: 1-800 724 457
Clinical Information Transformation
For many healthcare providers, clinical information is an unknown quantity – to the potential detriment of their patients and organisational performance.
AusHealth’s Clinical Information Transformation service can not only reveal the weaknesses and strengths of your operation, it can also implement strategies for improvement and growth. It works by:
- capturing and analysing the wealth of detailed clinical information held within health services; this data is then converted and structured for improved usability and analysis
- allowing better understanding of financial opportunities and risk
- identifying the source and size of potential compliance issues
- enhancing reporting accuracy
- improving and reducing data entry errors that impact reimbursement.
When coupled with our Patient Financial Care solution, the Clinical Information Transformation service presents healthcare providers with an opportunity to significantly enhance operations and bottom-line performance.
The pillars supporting AusHealth’s integrated package of services include:
- industry leading expertise (headed by Dr Paul Tridgell)
- benchmarking against hospital/state/local health district results and current acute and sub-acute inpatient coding
- utilisation of innovative analytical software
- Documentation Gap Analysis.
Bottom-line benefits:
- Reveal the weaknesses and strengths of your operation
- Implement strategies for improvement and growth
- Allow better understanding of financial opportunities and risk
- Identify the source and size of potential compliance issues
- Enhance reporting accuracy
- Improve and reduce data entry errors that impact reimbursement.
Related solutions:
- Clinical Coders
- Analytical Auditing Service
- Patient Financial Care
HOW CAN WE HELP?
Schedule an in-person or a virtual meeting
Call: 1-800 724 457
Training and Education
Looking to enhance or upskill your existing personnel assets? AusHealth can provide targeted education in:
- documentation
- overcoming coding gaps
- data extraction
- data errors correction
- health information services operation
- Freedom of Information Requests
- clinical coding rules, conventions and standards
- coding classification system changes
- data errors correction of clinical coding from VAED/VEMD extracts/returns for Victorian Hospitals that are ABS funded.
HOW CAN WE HELP?
Schedule an in-person or a virtual meeting to discuss our clinical coding services.
Call: 1-800 724 457