Background
Methods
Results
% Patients in age group | ||||||||||
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Practice | No. patients | RUCA code* | Ownership | % Medicaid | EHR?† | % Male patients | 14 and under | 15-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
1
| 10000 | 1 | Physician/physician group | 28 | Yes | 40 | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- |
2
| 13200 | 7 | Physician/physician group | 18 | No | 40 | 27 | 27 | 22 | 24 |
3
| 10000 | 2 | Physician/physician group | 0.2 | Yes | 45 | 10 | 20 | 40 | 30 |
4
| 7000 | 3 | Physician/physician group | 6 | Yes | 40 | 22 | 35 | 25 | 18 |
5
| 3155 | 1 | Physician/physician group | 11 | Yes | 41 | 7 | 38 | 32 | 23 |
6
| 5000 | 10.4 | Physician/physician group | 12 | Yes | 50 | 35 | 20 | 15 | 30 |
7
| 3000 | 10.4 | Hospital | 7 | No | 40 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 40 |
8
| 7136 | 2 | Physician/physician group | 27 | Yes | 40 | 17 | 45 | 27 | 11 |
9
| 1460 | 7 | Physician/physician group | 1 | Yes | 40 | 11 | 42 | 36 | 11 |
Practice | Medical equipment | Medication | Nursing | Procedure | OT/PT | Radiology | Not recorded |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1
| 0 | 16.5 | 0 | 4.9 | 44.7 | 34.0 | 0 |
2
| 0 | 44.9 | 0 | 2.0 | 4.1 | 44.9 | 4.1 |
3
| 1.6 | 25.8 | 0 | 0 | 6.5 | 66.1 | 1.6 |
4
| 2.0 | 52.0 | 0 | 16.0 | 6.0 | 26.0 | 0 |
5
| 0 | 76.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23.7 | 0 |
6
| 3.6 | 71.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28.6 | 0 |
7
| 0 | 19.0 | 57.1 | 0 | 0 | 23.8 | 0 |
8
| 0 | 50.0 | 0 | 3.1 | 0 | 46.9 | 0 |
9
| 0 | 12.2 | 0 | 0. | 0 | 87.8 | 0 |
Practice | Total EF count | Total time in minutes | Mean time per request (minutes) | Projected annual cost ($) | Mean # request/week | Per FTE Physician | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
FTE | Requests/week | Time/week | Cost/week | Cost/year | ||||||
1
| 103 | 972 | 9.4 | 3804 | 25.8 | 4.5 | 5.8 | 54.6 | 18 | $926 |
2
| 49 | 874 | 17.8 | 5020 | 12.3 | 3.0 | 4.1 | 72.8 | 35 | $1,813 |
3
| 63 | 899 | 14.3 | 5112 | 15.8 | 5.0 | 3.2 | 45.0 | 21 | $1,108 |
4
| 51 | 1,231 | 24.1 | 4647 | 12.8 | 3.0 | 4.3 | 102.6 | 32 | $1,678 |
5
| 38 | 582 | 15.3 | 4250 | 9.5 | 1.0 | 9.5 | 145.5 | 89 | $4,604 |
6
| 29 | 375 | 12.9 | 1979 | 7.3 | 3.0 | 2.4 | 31.3 | 14 | $715 |
7
| 21 | 382 | 18.2 | 1968 | 5.3 | 2.0 | 2.6 | 47.8 | 21 | $1,066 |
8
| 32 | 434 | 13.6 | 2540 | 8.0 | 1.5 | 5.3 | 72.3 | 35 | $1,835 |
9
| 49 | 735 | 15.0 | 5278 | 12.3 | 3.0 | 4.1 | 61.3 | 37 | $1,906 |
Pre-cer | EF count | Time (minutes) | Average time (minutes) | Estimated cost ($) | Cost (%) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Medical equip
| 3 | 55 | 18.3 | 62 | 1.7 |
Medication
| 156 | 2,433 | 15.6 | 1648 | 45.7 |
Not recorded
| 3 | 40 | 13.3 | 19 | 0.5 |
Nursing
| 12 | 170 | 14.2 | 69 | 1.9 |
OT/PT
| 55 | 374 | 6.8 | 137 | 3.8 |
Procedure
| 15 | 292 | 19.5 | 113 | 3.2 |
Radiology
| 191 | 3,120 | 16.3 | 1555 | 43.2 |
Position | EF Count | Total time (minutes) | Time (%) | Average time per EF (minutes) | Cost (%) | Cost estimate ($) | Average cost ($) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Clerical
| 221 | 3147 | 48.5 | 14.2 | 18.7 | 1053 | 4 |
LPN
| 79 | 983 | 15.2 | 12.4 | 16.3 | 400 | 4 |
PA
| 20 | 298 | 4.6 | 14.9 | 19.6 | 270 | 11 |
Physician
| 34 | 532 | 8.2 | 15.6 | 20.6 | 852 | 20 |
RN
| 81 | 1524 | 23.5 | 18.8 | 24.8 | 1029 | 10 |
Variable | Beta | t | p | Lower bound (95% CI) | Upper bound (95% CI) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Constant
| 20.017 | 13.018 | <.001 | 16.995 | 23.040 |
Practice X
| 11.389 | 6.108 | <.001 | 7.724 | 15.054 |
Purpose - OT/PT†
| −8.716 | −4.847 | <.001 | −12.250 | −5.182 |
Medicaid
| −6.085 | −3.871 | <.001 | −9.174 | −2.995 |
EHR in use
| −5.086 | −3.085 | .002 | −8.327 | −1.845 |