Tracking productivity: Looking beyond billable units
Briefings on Outpatient Rehab: Reimbursement and Regulations, December 1, 2008
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When times get tough, it’s easy to think your practice may have to start cutting back on equipment, staff members, benefits, or other areas in which you determine that you can save money.
But even in rough economic times, cutting back doesn’t have to occur if you can ensure that your staff members are highly efficient and productive.
However, it’s not always easy to know whether your staff is productive and how to improve its productivity.
“You have to come up with measures for tracking productivity and efficiency and then make your staff accountable for it,” says Lynn Steffes, PT, president of Steffes & Associates in New Berlin, WI.
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