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Area of Science:

  • Healthcare finance
  • Medical coding
  • Orthopaedic surgery

Background:

  • Payment by Results (PbR) incentivizes hospital productivity.
  • Specific tariffs exist for orthopaedic procedures like removal of sutures (ROS) and attention to dressing (AD).
  • Accurate documentation is essential for claiming these tariffs.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To quantify the financial losses incurred by hospitals due to underclaimed ROS and AD procedures.
  • To identify the impact of poor documentation on revenue in outpatient orthopaedic clinics.

Main Methods:

  • A retrospective analysis of orthopaedic clinic consultations over one month.
  • Comparison of procedure documentation between coding pro formas and dictated clinic letters.
  • Identification of discrepancies in claiming for ROS and AD.

Main Results:

  • Only one removal of sutures (ROS) was correctly documented on the pro forma for coding.
  • Hospitals failed to claim £9,838 in one month for these procedures.
  • Annual revenue loss due to underclaiming is estimated at £118,056.

Conclusions:

  • Current medical coding practices in orthopaedic clinics are substandard.
  • Suboptimal documentation leads to significant financial losses for hospital trusts.
  • Urgent improvement of coding policies is necessary to ensure financial stability.