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  • 1.  Evaluating radiologists productivity during COVID

    Posted 09-22-2020 12:23
    Hi,
    Would anyone be willing to share how their practice is evaluating radiologists productivity during COVID?
    Is anyone making adjustments to the radiologists yearly average like excluding shutdown months? 

    Our area of the country was shutdown (except for essential services) for 2+ months so it is difficult to get a valid average using all the months of 2020. 
    I appreciate any feedback!

    Please feel free to contact me offline to discuss in more detail.
    Thank you,
    Kerri



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    Kerri Spadaccia
    Radiology Practice Manager
    Progressive Physician Associates
    Bethlehem PA
    kspadaccia@ppamail.com
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  • 2.  RE: Evaluating radiologists productivity during COVID

    Posted 09-22-2020 13:37
    Did you reduce staff?
    Average wRVU/day (pre/post covid)

    Dennis Wiseman
    Chief Executive Officer
    Radiology & Imaging of South Texas
    3226 S. Alameda Street
    Corpus Christi, TX 78404

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  • 3.  RE: Evaluating radiologists productivity during COVID

    Posted 09-22-2020 14:23
    Kerri    
    We look at the time they actually work.  If someone is on vacation, on administrative time or in the case of Covid had additional time off because of decreased volume, we do not count those days to divide the procedures or wRVU.  That is also how we even out for those working less than full-time.   We can compare someone working a couple shifts per month to someone working full time because we look at the average procedures, and wRVU/half day and do that within subspecialty.  What did get skewed for us is the average payment per wRVU and per half day during those months because of the delay in A/R.  We calculate the reports monthly but usually we report to the individuals by quarter.  We suspended the reporting for the April to June quarter even though we have the statistics. 

    For the time they are productively working we report
    Procedures
    wRVU
    half days worked
    Proc/half day
    wRVU/half day 
    wRVU/proc  - shows case mix or cherry picking variance within subspecialty
    Payments
    Payments/half day
    Only leadership sees the payments.  We do not report the payments to the individual

    Feel free to call me or email me privately if anyone has any questions.

    Jim

    James Foley, MS CMPE
    Medical Imaging of Lehigh Valley
    Allentown PA
    610.770.1606 office




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