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. Compose a request for additional coding staff.

Answer 1

Assuming an 8-hour day and each of the coders does 3/hour, currently:

2 * 3 * 8 = 48

In relation to the desired increase:

75 - 48 = 27