IIT Meeting Current Productivity Benchmark Targets at Indiana Tech Hospital Questions
Benchmarking Productivity
As the HIM Director at Indiana Tech Hospital, you oversee the Medical Coding Unit.The Coding Unit consists of 10 coders. There are 4 Inpatient Coders, 2 Outpatient, 2 ER coders, and 2 Ancillary Coders. There are six full-time (40 hr/wk) coders, and four part time (24 hr/wk) coders as noted below. The Discharge Not Final Billed Report has demonstrated and increase in DNFB dollars, which is directly related to an increase in the back-log of coding that has been observed over the past several months. As the Director, you first step is to review the current productivity of your Coding team to determine if your need to adjust the productivity standards or if you need to address personnel needs.Please use the data provided to answer the questions below:
Current Productivity Benchmarks (Per Day):
Current Productivity: in attached photo
Use the Data provided above to answer the following questions:
Compute the productivity for each group class of coders ( Inpatient, Outpatient, ER, Ancillary):Inpatient:Outpatient:ER:Ancillary:
Current Productivity:
ID Coder Role PT/FTDailyHourly
11 Inpatient Coder FT
18
21 Inpatient Coder FT
21
31 Inpatient Coder PT 11
41 Inpatient Coder PT 9
510utpatient Coder FT
126
610utpatient CoderPT
48
71ER Coder
FT
92
81ER Coder
PT
87
91Ancillary Coder FT 137
00Ancillary Coder FT 145
