Health Populi October 22, 2021
In the U.S., “Health care is complicated because complexity is profitable.”
So explain Bob Kocher, MD, and Anuraag Chigurupati, in a viewpoint on Economic Incentives for Administrative Simplification, published this week in JAMA.
Dr. Kocher, a physician who is a venture capitalist, and Chigurupati, head of member experience at Devoted Health, explain the misaligned incentives that impede progress in reducing administrative spending.
This essay joins two others in the October 20, 2021 issue of JAMA which highlight administrative spending in American health care:
- Administrative Simplification and the Potential for Saving a Quarter-Trillion Dollars in Health Care by Nikhil Sahni, Brandon Carrus, and David Cutler (from Harvard and McKinsey); and,
- Administrative Expenses in the US Health Care System – Why...
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