Open AccessAdministrative Costs Associated With Physician Billing and Insurance-Related Activities at an Academic Health Care System
Author(s) -
Phillip Tseng,
Robert S. Kaplan,
Barak D. Richman,
Mahek A. Shah,
Kevin A. Schulman
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
jama
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.688
H-Index - 680
eISSN - 1538-3598
pISSN - 0098-7484
DOI - 10.1001/jama.2017.19148
Subject(s) - medicine , activity based costing , health care , ambulatory care , revenue , medical emergency , total cost , ambulatory , emergency medicine , family medicine , finance , business , accounting , marketing , economics , economic growth
Administrative costs in the US health care system are an important component of total health care spending, and a substantial proportion of these costs are attributable to billing and insurance-related activities.
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