Journal of Healthcare Management - May/June 2013 - (Page 173)
Assessing the Productivity of
Advanced Practice Providers Using a
Time and Motion Study
Folusho Ogunfiditimi, DM, PA-C, manager, Advanced Practice Providers; Lisa Takis,
CSSBB, project manager; Virginia J. Paige, ACHPN, NP-C, chair, Advanced Practice
Provider Council; Janet F. Wyman, RN, ACNS-BC, past chair, Advanced Practice
Provider Council; and Elissa Marlow, PA-C, Governance Committee chair, Advanced
Practice Provider Council, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan
E X E C U t i V E S U M M a r Y
The Resource-Based Relative Value Scale is widely used to measure healthcare provider productivity and to set payment standards. The scale, however, is limited in
its assessment of pre- and postservice work and other potentially non-revenuegenerating healthcare services, what we have termed service-valued activity (SVA). In
an attempt to quantify SVA, we conducted a time and motion study of providers to
assess their productivity in inpatient and outpatient settings.
Using the Standard Time and Motion Procedures checklist as a methodological guide, we provided personal digital assistants (PDAs) that were prepopulated
with 2010 Current Procedural Terminology codes to 19 advanced practice providers
(APPs). The APPs were instructed to identify their location and activity each time
the PDA randomly alarmed. The providers collected data for 3 to 5 workdays, and
those data were separated into revenue-generating services (RGSs) and SVAs. Multiple
inpatient and outpatient departments were assessed. The inpatient APPs spent 61.6
percent of their time on RGSs and 35.1 percent on SVAs. Providers in the outpatient
settings spent 59.0 percent of their time on RGSs and 38.2 percent on SVAs.
This time and motion study demonstrated an innovative method and tool for the
quantification and analysis of time spent on revenue- and non-revenue-generating
services provided by healthcare professionals. The new information derived from this
study can be used to accurately document productivity, determine clinical practice
patterns, and improve deployment strategies of healthcare providers.
For more information about the concepts in this article, please contact
Dr. Ogunfiditimi at folu@yahoo.com.
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