title: Influencing hospitalist clinical productivity with feedback.
abstract: Periodic clinical productivity feedback with peer comparison produces significant changes to CPT code distributions, which leads to improvements in per-encounter work relative value units (wRVUs) (+25%) and charges (+20%). Improved wRVU production and charges can lead to increased collections, thus improving a practice's financial outlook without increasing patient volume. These interventions have minimal cost or risk to a hospitalist practice.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Internal Medicine, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, P.O. Box 19636, Springfield, IL 62794, USA. rrobinson@siumed.edu
authors.forename: Robert L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Robinson
authors.forename: Martha S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Burk
mesh_terms: D004526:Efficiency; D005246:Feedback; D020445:Hospitalists; D006801:Humans; D007087:Illinois; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D014481:United States