Administrative Costs Associated With Physician Billing and Insurance-Related Activities at an Academic Health Care System.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

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.

Objective

To examine and estimate the administrative costs associated with physician billing activities in a large academic health care system with a certified electronic health record system.

Design, setting, and participants

This study used time-driven activity-based costing. Interviews were conducted with 27 health system administrators and 34 physicians in 2016 and 2017 to construct a process map charting the path of an insurance claim through the revenue cycle management process. These data were used to calculate the cost for each major billi

SUBMITTER: Tseng P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5839285 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature