Project #2 Guidelines
Simplified Primary Care Office/Clinic Budget Assignment
This assignment is to be completed using Microsoft table or Excel format. All group members must be present during the class presentation in order to receive credits for the project.
- You are building a new primary care office. You will need to identify practice location, rent cost, furnishing, practice equipment, office supplies, medical/surgical/medicine/vaccine supplies, office supplies etc… Please state your practice vision, mission, values, and goals. Please select the location of your practice, your target population and service offered.
- How many FTE MDs, NPs, medical assistants (CMA), secretary and other personnel are needed in your office? One FTE employee is to work 2080 hours per year, which include at least 120 hours of paid vacation time, 80 hours of sick/personal time, and 8 holidays (64) hours.
The following questions will help you figure out how many FTE are needed in an office
- How many exam rooms are there in the office? At least 1 per provider, 2 will be optimal.
- What is the average daily censes? Expected to be 150-200 for this assignment.
- How many pts is an MD and a NP expected to see? Average 4 pts/hour for MD, 3 pts/hour for NP.
- How many providers does the office need each day?
- Each CMA is to assist 2 providers; how many CMA FTE are needed for the office? Each day?
- Each secretary is to assist 3 providers; how many secretaries are needed for the office?
- Other personnel? Biller? Housekeeping? You decide.
- Please set salaries for MD, NP, medical assistant, and office secretary based on your research. All personnel working more than 21 hours a week need to have 25% fringe benefit. What is the unit’s budget for the personnel?
- Supply and expense budget for the office for a year
The following item must be included: Office supplies with detail item list, medical-surgical supplies, stock drugs include vaccines, fluid etc., equipment include computer with item list, equipment repairs, telephone and phone line cost, staff training and education, recruitment.
All items, amount of items and cost chosen need to base on research and actual cost such as salary from salary survey data; vaccine from CDC or manufacture sites etc.
