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How are you guys handling APC chart distribution among your physicians?
At our CMG, APC charts probably add or subtract an additional ~$25/hr at the end of the month (or more) but we have no organized system for an even distribution among the physicians. So, it ends up being a lot of favoritism and psychological games being played in the ED. i.e. (If you don't give me a hard time, I'll send you my charts, etc..) I've touched on it with medical directors in the past but nobody seems very interested in doing anything about it and rightly so, because who gets the most charts sent to them at the end of the month? You guessed it, the medical director. Sometimes almost twice as many charts are sent to him at the end of the month.
Before I make a big deal about it, I'm just curious as to what everyone else does? Do you guys have a system in place and if so, how does it work exactly? Or does everyone have something similar to ours? It's just really frustrating and can sometimes significantly decrease your compensation at the end of the month. It's a constant source of frustration for me and sometimes makes other gigs in town seem attractive when they probably wouldn't be if issues such as this one were handled fairly. It's hard enough to guess compensation in a total RVU environment from month to month let alone having APC charts be yet another completely uncontrollable variable.
At our CMG, APC charts probably add or subtract an additional ~$25/hr at the end of the month (or more) but we have no organized system for an even distribution among the physicians. So, it ends up being a lot of favoritism and psychological games being played in the ED. i.e. (If you don't give me a hard time, I'll send you my charts, etc..) I've touched on it with medical directors in the past but nobody seems very interested in doing anything about it and rightly so, because who gets the most charts sent to them at the end of the month? You guessed it, the medical director. Sometimes almost twice as many charts are sent to him at the end of the month.
Before I make a big deal about it, I'm just curious as to what everyone else does? Do you guys have a system in place and if so, how does it work exactly? Or does everyone have something similar to ours? It's just really frustrating and can sometimes significantly decrease your compensation at the end of the month. It's a constant source of frustration for me and sometimes makes other gigs in town seem attractive when they probably wouldn't be if issues such as this one were handled fairly. It's hard enough to guess compensation in a total RVU environment from month to month let alone having APC charts be yet another completely uncontrollable variable.