Productivity/weighted charging in acute & IPR

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Group,

What are your productivity expectations for staff in an acute care and in IPR

setting? Our acute hospital is ~600 bed, level I trauma, stroke & LVAD

certified facility, and our IPR is 22 beds. Currently we are reevaluating our

charging methods to determine the best, if any, appropriate weight for

evaluations (service based) vs treatments (time based for OT & PT) and service

based SLP charges. For example, if an average evaluation takes 45 minutes, are

your evaluation charges weighted to account for the time beyond 15 minutes? we

have historically used unit of service counters with $0 to weight them equally

in terms of time with treatments. This has helped us reach productivity

expectations for numbers of UOS per day, but we are reevaluating whether this is

the best method.

Appreciate any input or suggestions, thanks.

Kari V. Voll, OTR/L, Therapy Manager

Norfolk, VA