HIM department at Community Hospital will experience a 15 percent increase in the number of discharges coded per day as the result of opening a cardiac clinic in the facility. The 15 percent incrase is projected to be 100 additional records per day. The standard time to code this type of record is 10 minutes. Compute the number of FETs required to handle this increased volume in coding based on a seven-hour productive day.
What is an FET?
Sorry, I meant FTEs (Full time equivalents)
100 / 6 = 16.67 hours needed to code 100 records
16.67 / 7 = 2.38 FTEs
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To compute the number of Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs) required to handle the increased volume in coding, we'll need to follow these steps:
Step 1: Calculate the total additional records per day
The problem states that there will be a 15% increase in the number of discharges coded per day. The increase is projected to be 100 additional records per day. We can find the total additional records per day by dividing 100 by 15% (in decimal form):
Total additional records per day = 100 / 0.15 = 666.67 (rounded to 667)
Step 2: Calculate the total coding time required
Since each record takes 10 minutes to code, we can calculate the total coding time required per day by multiplying the total additional records per day by the coding time per record:
Total coding time per day = Total additional records per day x Coding time per record
Total coding time per day = 667 x 10 minutes = 6670 minutes
Step 3: Convert minutes to hours
Since we want to calculate FTEs based on a seven-hour productive day, we need to convert the total coding time from minutes to hours:
Total coding time per day (hours) = Total coding time per day (minutes) / 60
Total coding time per day (hours) = 6670 minutes / 60 = 111.17 (rounded to 111.2 hours)
Step 4: Determine the number of FTEs required
To compute the number of FTEs required, we divide the total coding time per day by the productive hours per day (seven hours):
Number of FTEs required = Total coding time per day (hours) / Productive hours per day
Number of FTEs required = 111.2 hours / 7 hours = 15.9 (rounded to 16 FTEs)
Therefore, the number of FTEs required to handle the increased volume in coding, based on a seven-hour productive day, is 16 FTEs.