COMPARISION OF COST SAVING & OTHER BENEFITS :   

COMPARISION OF COST SAVING & OTHER BENEFITS  LOUISIANA  

 IN-HOUSE vs  . OUTSOURCING
MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION

COSTS

IN-HOUSE

OUTSOURCE

HOURLY WAGES@ $ 13.23*

ANNUAL = $27520.00

NIL

BENEFIT EXPENSES @ 5% OF WAGES

ANNUAL = $1376.00

NIL

PAYROLL TAXES @ 2% OF WAGES

ANNUAL = $550.40

NIL

WORKMANS COMP. EXPENSES

ANNUAL = $750.00

NIL

SICK/VACATION ALLOWANCE 10 DAYS

ANNUAL = $1532.00

NIL

OFFICE RENT @ $ 250 MONTH

ANNUAL = $3000.00

NIL

DICTATION/T’CRIPTION EQP.COST

ANNUAL = $250.00

NIL

EMPLOYEE TRAINING EXPENSES

ANNUAL = $300.00

NIL

MISCELLINOUS SOFTWARE

ANNUAL = $250.00

NIL

TECH. SUPPORT @ $ 50 PER MONTH

ANNUAL = $600.00

NIL

OFFICE EXPENSES @ 200 PER MONTH

ANNUAL = $2400.00

NIL

MISCELLINOUS EXP.$100 A MONTH

ANNUAL = $1200.00

NIL

OPERATIONAL EXPENSES

TOTAL = $ 39728.40

NIL

NOTE:
(*Hourly wages forLOUISIANA STATE based on Statistics as provided by US Dept of Labor)

IN-HOUSE
OUTSOURCE

ANNUAL Operational Expenses is =$39,728.40

Less equipment & software cost=$ 1, 450.50
                                =$38,277.90

Add 33% depreciation on equipment =$ 478.50

Net annual operational cost     Total = $ 38,756.40

Divide :

Annual operational cost @   38,756.40
     
     52 weeks  @         52
                                                       
                                         = $ 745

Divide:


Operational cost  a week @ $ 745 
Transcribed lines a week @    4000   
                                     
                                              = $0.19 cents                       

In-house cost Single transcribed line= $0.19 cents                                           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$0.08 cents

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YOU BENEFIT 68% ON COST & OTHER SAVINGS

The in-house operational expense for medical transcriptions could cost a hospital or a healthcare provider in LOUSIANA an approximate US $.39729 annually.

IN-HOUSE LABOUR COSTS: The major part of the expense incurred, is the wages paid to a medical transcriber, costing the company US $.27520 annually, add to that the other costs in the form of benefit expenses of 5%, the payroll taxes of 2% on the wages, and the sick/ vacation allowances that will add to the total cost of US $.30981.40 annually.

IN-HOUSE EQUIPMENT COSTS: The investment into equipment such as the workman’s computer, dictation and transcription equipment and miscellaneous software will cost another US $.1450, and assuming that such equipment will serve the company for the next three years, the depreciation value of 33% or US $ 478.50 will have to be added to the operational cost annually.

IN-HOUSE ‘OTHER’ COSTS: The other add on expenditures are in the form of monthly office rentals, employees training expense on software’s installed, fees paid to the technical experts for maintenance of computers and transcription equipment, and finally the cost of stationary and other miscellaneous expenditure costing a total US.$ 7500 annually.

IN-HOUSE ANNUAL EXPENDITURE: Thus the estimated total expenditure, that will cost a hospital or a health care provider in operating an in- house medical transcription process in a state like LOUSIANA can be roughly assumed to be US$ 38757 or more annually, and for the purpose of trying to analyze the cost that an in-house transcription process may incur for transcribing a single line of a Medical record, let us first split the annual expenditure of US $ 38757 by 52 weeks of a calendar year, which will work out to US $ 745 a week, and if one considers that a medical transcriber is able to transcribe 4000 lines of medical records a week, a simple math calculation will tell us that a single line of transcription can cost an in-house medical transcription process $ 0.19 cents, and when you compare that to the $ 0.08cents we charge for a single line of transcription, a hospital or a healthcare provider in Louisiana will save a mammoth 58% of costs by outsourcing the medical transcription requirements of the hospital to us.

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