A Grocery Store Is Trying to Determine How Many Checkouts

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Essay

A grocery store is trying to determine how many checkouts per hour its cashiers should perform. The checkout consists of three components; checking, bagging, and payment. A cashier was rated as 80%, 120%, and 95% on the three different components respectively. If a stopwatch timed her as averaging 20 seconds for each component and the store wants a 10% allowance calculate the total standard time.

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Definitions:

Modifiers

In linguistics, words, phrases, or clauses that provide additional information about another word or phrase, altering its meaning. In the medical billing context, they are codes that alter the description of a procedure or service.

CPT Codes

Current Procedural Terminology codes, a set of medical codes used to describe medical, surgical, and diagnostic services to facilitate billing and documentation.

Special Circumstance

A unique or exceptional condition that requires individualized consideration or treatment.

CPT Codes

Medical codes used to report procedures and services to healthcare providers and insurance companies for billing.