Provider settings

The following table describes the Provider settings for the Budget Provider Configuration driver:

Option Description
Provider

  1. On the dropdown lists for the Select Dimension for GL Account for stat/charges cells, select the dimensions to assign.

  2. In the Show Finl Class / Location Detail On ProviderTab? cell, perform one of the following actions:
    • To display the Financial Class allocations sections on the Provider tab, select Yes from the dropdown.
    • To hide the sections to make the Budget workbook easier to read for managers or directors, select No from the dropdown.
  3. In the FinClass/Location Label cell, select the label to be displayed in the workbook.
Provider Driver Statistic Identification

  1. To assign the primary statistic driver in the Providers tab, in the Enter the DATATYPE that houses your Driver Stat dropdown, select Encounter, Visit, WRVU, or RVU.

    NOTE: Use this option as the volume criteria to limit the providers included in the plan file. To specify the volume that providers must meet to be included in a plan file, see the Threshold Parameters to limit providers data section. For more information, see Configuring threshold parameters to limit Provider data.

  2. If you select WVRU or RVU in the previous cell, you can still budget for Encounter or Visit in the Enter the DATATYPE that houses your other non-driver to budget cell by doing following:

    • To budget for Encounter, select Encounter
    • To budget for Visit, select Visit.
    • To hide the additional rows of the Provider block where Encounter or Visit would be displayed, select None.
Provider Payment/Allowance Identification

To compute Percent of Net or Percent of Collections Provider compensation, select one of the following:

  • Allowance
  • Payment
  • Hide
Provider Charge Spread

In the Select Default Charge Spread Statistic cell, select one of the following from the dropdown list:

  • Procedure
  • WRVU
  • RVU
Option Provider Column Display For each cell in this section, type Hide or Show to change which columns are displayed.
     
Default Seasonality Index Used as the default for seasonality for providerss without a full 12-month history. For each cell in this row, the total of the 12 monthly values must sum to 12.
Default FTE if not on ProviderComp tab

Used on the Provider tab as the default full-time employee (FTE) for each Provider block when there is no Provider block found on the ProviderCompensation tab in the Budget workbooks.

Enter one of the following values:

  • 0 (zero)
  • 1
Default Spread Options for Providers

Select one of the following values from the dropdown to assign to the monthly productive and non-production budget values:

  • Statistic

  • FTE

  • Even

Default is Statistic.

Source and Monthly FTE Spread for Providers

In the cells for each month, type the spread amount to use as the default for the FTE divisor factors used in FTE calculations on the ProviderComp tab.

Select one of the following options from the dropdown:

  • Budget Config Driver - Refers to the FTE divisor factors provided in the 02 Budget Labor Configuration Driver. This option keeps the two drivers synchronized.

  • Last Saved - Preserves changes made to the FTE divisor factors.

The default is Budget Config Driver.
New Provider Financial Class Defaults
  1. In the FINCLASS cell, do the following:
    • To assign the default Financial Classes to use in the Add New Provider 85 Lines Calc Method in the Provider worksheet, type the FINCLASS.
    • If you do not need a row and want to hide it in the worksheet, type NotUsed.
  2. In the %Allocation cell, type the default payor mix.

NOTE: This feature is limited to five default FinClass assignments. You cannot insert additional rows in global assumptions, but you can insert them into the calc method in the Budget workbook.
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