Doctor’s Diary September 3, 2017: Paperwork Sequela

4 Comments

• Steve Kassel says:

  September 4, 2017 at 4:51 pm

  In my psychotherapy practice, its paperwork and all kinds of unessessary calls and audits for insurance companies that are unpaid, designed to keep us controlled, fullfill contrived rules or laws in place that were put there as a backlash to corporate greed. These create”empathy blockers” and cut down my ability to find time research how to better help patients, block my ability to find time to call and consult with other professionals and make it so I have to add another 10 hours of patient wotk each decade as reimbursement rates are arbitrary held by insurance companies (who are exempt from anti-trust laws) at 1970s levels despite huge gains in inflation. Insurance companies are run by mobsters and are killing our ability to help people.
  My colleagues who work in countries that have single payer national health plans shake their heads in disgust when I tell them how badly we are treated and how patient outcomes could be better.

• Donald May says:

  September 3, 2017 at 5:40 pm

  When we documented with paperwork, it took little time.

  It is the mandated completion of documentation using computer technology that has made documentation an unbearable drudgery and medical records overly complicated to the point of often being much less useful.

  God Bless!

• H says:

  September 3, 2017 at 4:45 pm

  I have read reports that administrative overhead is ~34% in the USA, ~13% in Canada, and been told it is ~5% in England. Are these correct numbers?
  H.E.Butler III M.D., FACS

• H. E. Butler III M.D., FACS says:

  September 3, 2017 at 3:27 pm

  What is the administrative overhead in other countries? H