Actual and potential effects of medical resident coverage on reimbursement for inpatient visits by attending physicians.

Context: The impact of residents on hospital finance has been studied; there are no data describing the economic effect of residents on attending physicians.

Objective: In a community teaching hospital, we compared allowable inpatient visit codes and payments (based on documentation in the daily progress notes) between a general medicine teaching unit and nonteaching general medicine units.

Design: Retrospective chart review, matched cohort study.