South Australia has issued a request for information for a new billing solution that can support fee-for-service payments for doctors providing public inpatient services in Country Health SA Local Health Network facilities, including rural hospitals, residential aged care facilities and multi-purpose services.

The new solution will replace the patient administration system (PAS) fee-for-service (FFS) module, currently used by 220 CHSALHN sites, which involves a semi-automatic interface that extracts and transfers patient data such as episode details from the Chiron PAS into an Oracle financial system to finalise and process the payment.