1.) Community Physician’s Clinic is a large clinic with 85 physicians. They treat about 9,000 patients each week. Coding professionals are expected to code 100 clinic records each day.
How many FTEs are needed to code these records?
*(Assume a five-day work week and 7.5 as a productive day.)
2.) The coding section in the HIM department shows its first-quarter budget analysis as having a budgeted cost of operation of $72,000. However, the actual cost of operation was $76,000.
Calculate the budget variance. Round to one decimal place.
3.) Last month, the ROI specialist received 580 requests for information. He was able to answer 307 within the specified time frame of three working days.
What is the rate of compliance in answering requests within the specified time frame? Round to two decimal places.
4.) In September, the hospital had three coding professionals who coded 1,500 inpatient records, and 22 of the records failed the quality screens.
a. What is the average number of records coded by each coding professional?
b. What was the average number of records coded each working day (Monday through Friday at 21 workdays) in September? Round to two decimal places.
c. What percentage of records passed the quality screens? Round to two decimal places.
Please provide formulas used to get the answer.
