Minott Jenny
Changes in Health Care Financing & Organziation (HCFO), USA.
Find Brief. 2010 Mar;13(2):1-3.
(1) Primary care physicians spent significantly more time on administrative tasks than did medical specialists or surgical specialists. (2) All staff in physician practices with one or two physicians spent more time on administrative tasks than did physicians and staff in practices with more than 10 physicians. (3) More than 75 percent of physicians and administrators reported that the administrative burden of interacting with a health plan increased significantly or increased slightly in the past two years. (4) On average, physician practices spent $68,274 per physician per year interacting with health plans. When this average is multiplied by the number of physicians practicing in the United States, the total cost of physicians' interactions with health plans is $31.0 billion.
(1) 与医学专科医生或外科专科医生相比，初级保健医生在行政任务上花费的时间显著更多。(2) 与拥有超过10名医生的医疗机构中的医生和工作人员相比，拥有一两名医生的医疗机构中的所有工作人员在行政任务上花费的时间更多。(3) 超过75%的医生和管理人员报告称，在过去两年中，与医疗计划互动的行政负担显著增加或略有增加。(4) 平均而言，医疗机构每位医生每年花费68,274美元与医疗计划互动。将这个平均数乘以在美国执业的医生数量，医生与医疗计划互动的总成本为310亿美元。
