title: An Intranet-based system for inpatient billing in an academic medical center.
abstract: Academic physicians face great economic challenges. There is therefore a growing need to increase the efficiency of academic practice. One potential target for improving the "business" of medicine is inpatient billing. Currently many academic centers use "yellow" cards for inpatient billing. This is an inefficient system for capturing patient charges. We describe an Intranet-based system for inpatient billing that improves physician "productivity," reduces billing lag time, and increases the collection rate and total revenues.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Thomas Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa, USA. paul.marik@jefferson.edu
authors.forename: Paul E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Marik
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Stauffer
authors.forename: Soetji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Anto
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: McNichol
authors.forename: Arthur
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Feldman
authors.forename: Jeff
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Riggio
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers / Q000191:economics*; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D005251:Fees, Medical; D007297:Inpatients; D010350:Patient Credit and Collection; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems; D011216:Practice Management, Medical / Q000191:economics