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  • 1.  New AR Survey?

    Posted 11-15-2022 08:41
    Forum - It was about a year ago that the 2021 AR survey was released. Has there been anything said about when a new AR survey will be released?

    We participated in the 2021 survey data collection (and thus received a complimentary copy) but some of the benchmark results just didn't add up, causing me to doubt the accuracy of the survey. In short, I ended up disregarding the '21 survey and using the 2018 survey for our reporting. I'm also wondering if anyone else felt the 2021 survey results were questionable.

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    Rick Sylvanus
    Operations Manager
    Southern Delaware Imaging Associates
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  • 2.  RE: New AR Survey?

    Posted 11-16-2022 08:09
    Edited by Mark Canada 11-16-2022 09:13
    Hi Rick,

    The new survey should be released in the next few weeks.  After receiving constructive feedback on last year's survey, we made several changes to this year's version to add more clarity to the data input fields which will hopefully yield more consistent reporting.  We are currently testing the updated survey by having a few Data Committee members run sample data from their groups.

    Thanks for reaching out, and we look forward to your participation this year.

    Bet regards,

    Mark Canada
    Co-chair, RBMA Data Committee

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    Mark Canada MHA
    Operations Manager
    R.A. Services
    North Chesterfield VA
    (804) 272-8806 ext. 386
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  • 3.  RE: New AR Survey?

    Posted 11-16-2022 10:45
    Rick,

    One of the cool features of the Quinsite tool was the ability to dismiss outliers. This function should be enhanced in the new survey. The problem with any survey like this is we are dependent on the respondents giving good input. For example, in the last survey, we had several respondents with Net Collection Percentages above 200%. As was reviewed at several PaRADigm sessions on the A/R survey, the Quinsite tool allows you to ignore these and we showed people in these sessions how to do it. As Mark Canada said, we've added more definitions this time around. I personally felt that if you took out these outliers, the results from the survey were actually more valuable than in years' past due to the scattergraphs.  You could see exactly where you stood against your peers.

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    Kyle Tucker
    President
    Dexios Radiology Billing
    Midlothian VA
    (804) 378-3543
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  • 4.  RE: New AR Survey?

    Posted 11-16-2022 13:42
    I want to remind everyone that as part of A Word With Bob Live podcast tomorrow, 11/17/22, I will be interviewing RBMA Data Committee co-Chair Mark Canada regarding the 2022 A/R Benchmarking Survey.  Mark will review the goals of the 2022 survey, improvements that have been made to the survey and encourage the growing number of RBMA members to respond.  Here is a link to register for AWWB Live.
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    Robert Still FRBMA
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    Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA)
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  • 5.  RE: New AR Survey?

    Posted 11-17-2022 12:48
    Thanks for your responses everyone. Regarding the idea of removing outliers, would it be possible to remove outliers from the PDF version of the results? (I think leaving it up to the end user to remove outliers could create a conflict of interests - or at least the appearance of.)



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    Rick Sylvanus
    Operations Manager
    Southern Delaware Imaging Associates
    P.O. Box 97
    Nassau, DE 19969
    Office: 302-645-7919 x1000
    Fax: 302-645-7841

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  • 6.  RE: New AR Survey?

    Posted 11-17-2022 14:03

    I agree with removing the outliers, but that will also change calculations for the key indicators so it would be a pretty large revision for the RBMA.  However, It would be very interesting to see how the key indicators would change as a result.  PK

     

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