Originally Posted by Tomastoria
My issue with cost is that Medicare, Medicaid and most insurance companies decide how much to pay doctors based on a formula that includes the cost of office overhead -- but the formulas were derived in a pre-IT era, and despite rosy promises

This is true. There is also this, which is one of the most telling graphs in the modern history of medicine:

Note the line for administrators vs the one for physicians.

[Linked Image from researchgate.net]

Last edited by JBS; 07/18/2022 9:10 AM.
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