Today, Information Technology in the healthcare system has been evolving year by year, Making healthcare costing go throw a massive transformation with the Patient level costing PLICS system.

What’s the Patient level costing PLICS system?

Since 2015 NHS Improvement rolling out the Patient Level Costing PLICS system, and by this year all acute providers are required to implement PLICS.

The patient-level costing system is a solution provided by SBS to help healthcare providers to use the cost per patient information to both manage and improve operational performance, as it calculates service delivery costs and funding revenue based on clinical and financial data consolidated from other healthcare systems.

What makes PLICS essential now?

This solution gives you accurate cost information at any time, anywhere, with a lot of other features…

• – Developing and implementing one single national cost collection to replace current multiple collections, establishes the minimum required standards for costing software and promote its adoption, and drives and encourages sector support to adopt Patient Level Costing methodology and technology.
  
• – Monitors hospital performance through regularly generated reports that are distributed through e-mail.
  
• – Sets up a customized reporting framework to process all hospital data through the same validating, mapping, or processing steps into submission-ready files.
  
• – Connection with MS Office to easily create high-quality reports, Board books, and presentations with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
  
• – Gives a detailed knowledge of individual patient costs to inform patient classification, rather than reliance on the average cost.

In conclusion; 

You need to implement the Patient level costing PLICS system in your organizations to can decrease the time spent organizing billing and collecting payments, and increased clinician awareness of costs.

On our side, we provide you with our partner IMS Health Ardentia a perfect patient-level costing system to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare institutions and organizations.