Set the bar with outpatient coding productivity standards
Briefings on APCs, June 12, 2009
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Editor’s note: The results of the survey discussed in this article are based on responses from 215 participants in the following settings:
- Acute care community hospital (nonteaching): 45%
- Acute care teaching hospital: 26%
- Clinic/physician office: 12%
- Critical access hospital: 7%
- Freestanding ambulatory surgery center: 5%
- Freestanding rehab: 2%
- Freestanding skilled nursing facility: 1%
- Long-term acute care hospital: 2%
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