An Analysis of Physician Productivity and Self-Sustaining Revenue Generation in a Free-Standing Emergency Department Medical Scribe Model

Table 3

(a)

Charges	Charges per patient	Charges per shift	Charges per hour
Scribe shifts	355.07/scribe chart	$12,061.91	$1,206.19
Nonscribe shifts	340.58/nonscribe chart	$7,445.08	$744.51
Difference between scribe shifts and nonscribe shifts	$14.49	$4,616.83	$461.68

(b)

Collections	Collections per patient	Collections per shift	Collections per hour
Scribe shifts	$104.85/scribe chart	$3,557.28	$355.73
Nonscribe shifts	$100.16/nonscribe chart	$2,189.50	$218.95
Difference between scribe shifts and nonscribe shifts	$4.69	$1,367.78	$136.78

(c)

wRVUs	wRVUs per patient	wRVUs per shift	wRVUs per hour
Scribe shifts	2.3/scribe chart	78.06	7.81
Nonscribe shifts	2.2/nonscribe chart	48.09	4.81
Difference between scribe shifts and nonscribe shifts	0.1	29.97	3.00