Financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on an academic otolaryngology department.
World J Otorhinolaryngol Head Neck Surg
; 2022 Jul 21.
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| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2288176
ABSTRACT
Objective:
To quantify the financial impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic on an academic otolaryngology department.Methods:
A year-over-year comparison was used to compare department revenue from April 2020 and April 2021 as a percentage of baseline April 2019 activity.Results:
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020, total department charges decreased by 83.4%, of which outpatient clinic charges were affected to the greatest extent. One year into pandemic recovery, department charges remained down 6.7% from baseline, and outpatient clinic charges remained down 9.9%. The reduction in outpatient clinic charges was mostly driven by a decrease in in-office procedure charges.Conclusion:
Given that precautions to mitigate the risk of viral transmission in the health care setting are likely to be long-lived, it is important to consider the vulnerabilities of our specialty to mitigate financial losses going forward.
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Experimental Studies
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Prognostic study
Language:
English
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
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