Acute Care Productivity Benchmarks

[Guest guest]

 Good day all,

    I am in need of some productivity benchmarks for acute care therapy services

(PT and OT). We are having conversations with our executive team as to what is

reasonable as we build our budgets. In our organization, productivity is purely

based on billable units during hours worked. I know that the majority of

patients on acute care are paid via DRG and we are not really " billing " out

services in those cases. However, our reality is that this is how our measure of

volume/productivity is measured. When I attended CSM this past February, there

was a speaker who stated that the benchmark average for acute care productivity

is around 65% meaning that in an 8 hour day, the average is 20 to 21 units

billed. Again, I realize there is a large amount of what I would consider

" productive " time spent in case management, discharge planning etc, but our

system does not capture this time as productive. It only reflects billable CPT

code volume. If anyone has any

data, references etc. that they could point me to I would really appreciate it.

Thanks!

 

Mike Hampton PT, MPT

Manager-Rehab Therapies

PeaceHealth St. ph Medical Center

Bellingham, WA