Units in a days work

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ethilo

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I'm applying for jobs, mainly eat-what-you-kill model places. I'm trying to get a ballpark sense of how many units one generates with how much work. The conclusion I have is it is all over the place and hard to predict. Can anyone give a rough guide to me about how many units coincides with different examples of a day of work? Or also how many units are made on average in a month with a certain schedule?
 
Very hard to say how many units per x hours of work. Depends hugely on what cases you’re doing. 50 units/day would be a nice average though. The best thing to do to evaluate each practice would be to download a coder app like Abeo. Ask to see a weeks worth of schedules and bill em out and see how many units each guy is turning on average.

Still though, payer mix is king. A group with a strong blended unit can work half as much and make more than a group with a garbage payer mix. Don’t forget to factor in any stipends.

Scheduling is also very important in an eat what you kill model. Who makes the schedule? Does everyone get a fair crack at the high unit value cases?

Payer mix and scheduling trump overall volume.

Working a reasonable full time schedule should put you around 10-12k units/year (MD only). Maybe closer to 15k if you really bust your ass or do a ton of cardiac.
 
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For those who do busy ACT practice supervising 3-4 rooms, how many units are you doing a year? From this and other threads it seems like most MD only groups are doing 10-15k but I didn't see much on those who supervise.