Community physician's clinic is buying the medical center physician's clinic. they will be adding 24 physicians who treat 62,400 patients per year. There are no credentialed coders employed at medicla center physician's clinic.The coding supervisor at community physician's clinic will be expected to code 100 clinical records per day. How many more full time employees (FETs) will be needed to code these records?

Question

Community physician's clinic is buying the medical center physician's clinic. they will be adding 24 physicians who treat 62,400 patients per year. There are no credentialed coders employed at medicla center physician's clinic.The coding supervisor at community physician's clinic will be expected to code 100 clinical records per day. How many more full time employees (FETs) will be needed to code these records?

Answer 1

62,400/(100*#workdays in a year) = ?

Answer 2

Dear PsyDAG,

Thanks you for your help, I suppose the answer to be 2.4 FETS? Also what did you use as the #workdays in a year?

Answer 3

See your previous post.

Answer 4

Dear PsyDAG,

I have searched through and can not find the previous post you talked about. However, is the answer correct at 2.4 FETs, and what will the #workdays in a year?

Answer 5

To determine the number of additional full-time employees (FTEs) needed to code the clinical records, we can follow these steps:

Step 1: Calculate the total number of clinical records per year.
Since each physician treats 62,400 patients per year and there will be 24 physicians added, the total number of patients per year will be:
62,400 patients/year * 24 physicians = 1,497,600 patients/year

Step 2: Calculate the number of working days in a year.
Assuming there are 365 days in a year, we subtract weekends and public holidays:
365 days/year - number of weekends (we assume 52 weekends/year) - number of public holidays

Step 3: Calculate the number of clinical records per day.
To find the average number of clinical records per day, we divide the total number of clinical records per year by the number of working days in a year:
1,497,600 patients/year / number of working days in a year

However, you haven't provided the number of public holidays, so the calculation cannot be completed without that information. Once you have the number of public holidays, you can substitute it into the equation and determine the average number of clinical records per day.

Step 4: Determine the number of coders needed.
Knowing that the coding supervisor can code 100 clinical records per day, we divide the average number of clinical records per day (from step 3) by 100 to get the number of coders needed:
Average number of clinical records per day / 100

This will give you the number of FTEs needed to code the clinical records.