Reimbursement profile of a private toxicology practice.
This article presents two years of billing and collection data for a bedside toxicology consultation service. The collections rate was 34% or dollars 26.19 per hour of consultative time. There was an inverse correlation between collection rates and patient acuity.
Leikin
Jerrold B
JB
Evanston Northwestern Health Care, OMEGA, Glenbrook Hospital, Glenview, IL 60026, USA. jleikin@enh.org
Vogel
Stephen
S
Samo
Daniel
D
Stevens
Pamela
P
Walter
Frank G
FG
D006801:Humans; D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement / Q000191:economics*; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000191:economics*; D011331:Private Practice / Q000191:economics*; D014116:Toxicology / Q000191:economics*