This very short install time compares to the installation of a standard cost system which routinely takes 6 months to 2 years or more. And this practice of plugging of the RCC continues when there is universal agreement that the RCC has absolutely no relation to actual costs. In the CostFlex installation, the RCC is never used. The system continues to improve its accuracy with each month's use. The worksheet is completed by the experienced manager at a rate of about 100 to 150 tasks per hour.
Bigger departments take longer.
The secret is asking for operational information that the experienced manager has memorized over the years at work in the department. Lastly, the all important monthly download files that provide the actual data upon which the cost determination is based on are established. Programming is usually not required by the user to establish these downloads. There are five of them required for the complete system, less if only the cost determination process is installed. CostFlex maintains extensive, multi-year, detailed data on every patient and every charge and every dollar spent by the hospital or physician practice.