Question

You are the coding Supervisor of a medium sized community hospital. You are staffed with 2 inpatient coders. Your current productivity level for your coders is 3 charts per hour. Your hospital discharges has increased to an average of 75 charts per day. How many staff members do you need Compose a request for additional coding staff. Validate your proposal with productivity statistics.

Answer 1

You'll need 25 hours a day for this task.

How many hours a day does each coder work?

Answer 2

Ms. Sue,
Each coder works 7.5 hours a day

Answer 3

25/7.5 = 3 1/3 coders total

I don't know whether you want to ask for 1 additional full time coder and 1 part-time coder.

Answer 4

Thank You

Answer 5

You're welcome.