Sexual Health tariffs, also known as payment by results, form the foundation for the payment of sexual health and contraceptive services from local commissioners. Billing for these services often relies solely on GUMCAD (SHHAPT) and SRHAD datasets.
The income of your sexual health services is intrinsically tied to the quality of your clinical coding. Whereas coding was previously used predominantly for public health purposes, it is now critical to secure and enhance your service. In a high-activity clinic, coding for essential items can be easily overlooked, but correctly reporting of basic items like a pregnancy test (carried out during an asymptomatic screen) could increase that attendance by £28.01 to £49.69. Capturing just 20 overlooked pregnancy tests per week could finance an additional Band 5 nurse for your service.
Tessell Health is proficient in reviewing your tariff submission to pinpoint areas where revenue might not be fully claimed. With our extensive experience across all sexual health clinical electronic patient records (EPR), we can suggest enhancements to your clinic’s recording processes, review procedures, and report generation. We will also develop a clinician-oriented presentation explaining the interplay between coding and finances, which can be circulated during training sessions to boost service-wide knowledge.
As your service grows and adapts, you may need to reassess and optimise your tariff submission multiple times throughout the contract duration.
Our team at Tessell Health will conduct a comprehensive business analysis on one month of your GUMCAD and SRHAD datasets, along with any other local reports used for your sexual health tariff submission. We recommend this analysis be performed for an active month and before the final submission, enabling your sexual health service to benefit from the discovered improvements.
We will assist you in making corrections and enhancements to the submission, ensuring it is ready for your tariff deadline. Following this, we will create a straightforward training presentation that you can report back to your clinical staff.
Service pricing starts from £1,375. For a detailed quotation and to discuss your specific needs, please contact our team.