KevinMD June 6, 2024
While physicians are constantly being asked to prove their value with a growing constellation of metrics, health care administrators seem to have escaped a similarly high degree of transparency and accountability about the value of their specific roles. What I mean is that physicians are certainly not equally informed by objective measures of the performance of their administrators. Given the remarkable growth in the health care administrator to physician ratio (10:1 now) over the past decades and their escalating salaries, it begs the question: why not?
Specifically, I think most physicians would like to know and deserve to know: What are those administrators doing with their time? How do they objectively define, measure, and report their value? Also, what individual...
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