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Category: Creative Essay

Subcategory: Health

Level: University

Pages: 1

Words: 275

Activity Based Funding
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Activity based funding is a motivational strategy that is used to encourage healthcare workers to treat more patients and complicated ailments as described by Eagar (2010). The activity-based funding model helps in the attainment of set goals, and it entails various processes (slide 3). The integration of ABF was made possible by the council of Australian Government as a reform in the approach used to fund health services, which fall in acute admitted care, emergency care, non-admitted care, sub-acute, care, or admitted mental health care categories. Certain diagnoses and cues (DRG factors) indicate the kind of healthcare services one should receive (refer to slide 8) as indicated in “Diagnosis Related Group” (2018). By now, it is evident that ABF has a significant impact on the kind of services provided as every healthcare facility aims to receive maximum funding. However, an efficient coding system is the pinnacle of ABF as it helps to keep tab of all the diagnoses, admissions, and procedures. The coding process consists of five main activities (see slide 12). The first three processes are executed by the clinical coders, who are guided by certain principles to ensure that the coding system is effective (“What is casemix and the clinical coder’s role?” 2015). Coding is guided by the ICD-10-AM, which guides the fourth activity/process and is a composite of various systems (see slide 15) as indicated by the Australian …

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