krystle8402
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I am a Clinic Administrator for an Adult Hospitalist group, along with being their medical coder. We currently have 12 doctors, and 5 midlevel providers. I also code for the Pediatric Hospitalist group, which was 2 providers (3, but he's out of the country until later this year). As of today, I have now gotten another Hospitalist group that has 2 Doctors and 3 midlevels. The doctor's are the only ones who actually charge in the Hospitalist group setting.
All of our codes are E/M codes. Monday mornings are pretty rough because I can have anywhere from 160 to 200 + (this morning I had 200) patients to chart for. . .and on Mondays, some of the patients have more than one charge to look through since we just came back from a weekend.
My question is, what is the average amount spend on an E/M chart for everyone? Or, how many charts in an 8 hour period is average? I don't feel like I can do a good job because I'm trying to keep up with the workload. I've been training my Administrative Assistant as best I can just so we can get the charges done daily. I'm taking the CPMA course in hopes it will strengthen my skills.
I'm curious to know everyone's thoughts.
Thank you!
All of our codes are E/M codes. Monday mornings are pretty rough because I can have anywhere from 160 to 200 + (this morning I had 200) patients to chart for. . .and on Mondays, some of the patients have more than one charge to look through since we just came back from a weekend.
My question is, what is the average amount spend on an E/M chart for everyone? Or, how many charts in an 8 hour period is average? I don't feel like I can do a good job because I'm trying to keep up with the workload. I've been training my Administrative Assistant as best I can just so we can get the charges done daily. I'm taking the CPMA course in hopes it will strengthen my skills.
I'm curious to know everyone's thoughts.
Thank you!