{"68972":{"#nid":"68972","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Physician Workload and Hospital Reimbursement: Overworked Servers Generate Lower Income","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETITLE:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp; Physician Workload and Hospital Reimbursement: Overworked Servers Generate Lower Income\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESPEAKER:\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/strong\u003ESergei Savin\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EABSTRACT: \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe\n study the impact of physician workload on hospital reimbursement \nutilizing a detailed data set from the trauma department of a major \nurban hospital. We find that the proportion of patients assigned a \u0026nbsp;\u0022high-severity\u0027\u0027 status for reimbursement purposes, which maps, on \naverage, to a 27.8% higher payment for the hospital, is substantially \nreduced as the workload of the discharging physician increases. This \neffect persists after we control for a number of systematic differences \nin patient characteristics, condition and time of discharge. \nFurthermore, we show\u0026nbsp; that it is not caused by selection bias or \nendogeneity in either discharge timing or allocation of discharges to \nphysicians. Finally, we find that the impact of workload on the \nprobability that a patient is assigned the high-severity designation is \nmoderated by the department\u0027s past experience in handling certain \npatient conditions. We attribute this phenomenon to a workload-induced \nreduction in diligence of paperwork execution. We estimate the \nassociated monetary loss to be approximately 0.9% (with a 95% confidence\n interval of 0.3% and 1.5%) of the department\u0027s annual revenue.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Physician Workload and Hospital Reimbursement"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2011-07-27 11:06:54","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:55:18","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-03-06T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-03-06T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-03-06T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-03-06 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-03-06 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-03-06 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Pinar Keskinocak, 404-894-2325\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}