The Impact of Medical Scribes on Relative Value Units in a Pediatric Primary Care Practice.

Child Documentation Electronic Health Records Humans Patient Satisfaction Primary Health Care Retrospective Studies
medical scribe pediatrics relative value units

Journal

Academic pediatrics
ISSN: 1876-2867
Titre abrégé: Acad Pediatr
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101499145

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
04 2021
Historique:
received: 15 01 2020
revised: 08 05 2020
accepted: 13 05 2020
pubmed: 24 5 2020
medline: 29 7 2021
entrez: 24 5 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Our study assessed the impact of adding medical scribes to an academic pediatric primary practice by measuring the relationship between work relative value units (wRVUs) and use of the medical scribe. This is a retrospective comparative study on the effect of medical scribes on average wRVUs per patient encounter. wRVUs were abstracted from procedure codes in the billing system. Six clinicians performed 2277 patient visits included in the study over 2 different time periods during 2017 and 2018. The first period was without the use of medical scribes and the second period included scribes. Average clinician wRVU production per visit increased by 7.68% (P < .001) with medical scribes over the previous period without them. This study shows that scribes contribute to improving the wRVU per visit in a primary pediatric practice. This finding is consistent with other research showing that scribes help increase volume and improve wRVUs for specialists who perform complex procedures.

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1016/j.acap.2020.05.009 PMID: 32445825
pubmed: 32445825
pii: S1876-2859(20)30188-1
doi: 10.1016/j.acap.2020.05.009
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

542-547

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2020 Academic Pediatric Association. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Auteurs

Troy A Phillips (TA)

Department of Learning and Performance Systems, Penn State University (TA Phillips), State College, Pa. Electronic address: tap146@psu.edu.

Kasey A Foley (KA)

Department of Communication Arts and Sciences, Penn State University (KA Foley), State College, Pa.

Benjamin H Levi (BH)

Department of Pediatrics, Penn State College of Medicine (BH Levi, P Jhaveri, D Abdulahad, and BN Fogel), Hershey, Pa; Department of Humanities, Penn State College of Medicine (BH Levi), Hershey, Pa.

Pooja Jhaveri (P)

Department of Pediatrics, Penn State College of Medicine (BH Levi, P Jhaveri, D Abdulahad, and BN Fogel), Hershey, Pa; Penn State College of Medicine (P Jhaveri), Hershey, Pa.

Cynthia H Chuang (CH)

Department of Medicine, Penn State College of Medicine (CH Chuang), Hershey, Pa; Department of Public Health Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine (CH Chuang and E Lehman), Hershey, Pa.

Denise Abdulahad (D)

Department of Pediatrics, Penn State College of Medicine (BH Levi, P Jhaveri, D Abdulahad, and BN Fogel), Hershey, Pa.

Erik Lehman (E)

Department of Public Health Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine (CH Chuang and E Lehman), Hershey, Pa.

Benjamin N Fogel (BN)

Department of Pediatrics, Penn State College of Medicine (BH Levi, P Jhaveri, D Abdulahad, and BN Fogel), Hershey, Pa; Penn State College of Medicine (P Jhaveri), Hershey, Pa.

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