By Provider Matching Staff Writer
Does your practice tell you have negative numbers? What this means is the practice thinks you are costing them more to employ, then the revenue you are adding to the practice. However, most practices don’t understanding how to track the “worth” of a Physician Assistant. Typically they will just add up their fixed overhead costs of employing the PA and then subtract how much money the PA brings into the practice. If the costs are more than the anticipated revenue; they will tell the PA they have negative numbers. The correct way of determining value would be to add up the fixed overhead costs for the Physician Assistant, subtract their anticipated revenue, but also take into account:
• Global Visits
• Global Period
• Work RVU’s
• Practice expense RVU’s
• Malpractice RVU’s
• Medicare Fee Breakdown
• Shared Visits
Does you practice look at all of the productivity components?