PICQ® assesses coded data according to the Australian Coding Standards, coding conventions and coding rules. The PICQ® Quality Ratio delivers coding quality and specificity that can be fairly benchmarked across different coders within a team or hospitals in a network. Users can typically find an uplift to Weighted Average Units through improvement to coding quality and specificity.
PICQ Audit maximises hospital reimbursement and resource efficiencies by utilising big data to identify common gaps and coding deficiencies, flagging under-reported activities. Analysing inpatient data to prioritise high-impact and high-value cases for review, Audit ensuring accurate complexity coding and long-term documentation improvements, ultimately supporting better patient care.
It identifies episodes of care which are likely to have coding or documentation deficiencies, and those where absent codes or documentation have the biggest opportunity to increase complexity and impact associated hospital revenue.
Over the last year since the re-introduction of PICQ, overall fatal errors for all of Victoria have halved. ”
Since the introduction of PICQ we have significantly reduced our reject rate for submission to state health departments. ”
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