The cost of administrative complexity. Administrative intricacies add no value to health care--but the costs keep stacking up.
New MGMA research reports that a 10-physician practice spends almost a quarter of a million dollars a year on unnecessary administrative complexity. MGMA urges public debate on administrative simplification and for industry stakeholders to spread the word. To provide a road map, we outline six basic areas to simplify and describe how a less complicated payment system might operate.