Health Care Blog July 9, 2024
Matthew Holt is going to tell me I’ve been thinking about infrastructure too much lately (e.g., cybersecurity of them, backup plans for them), but if you don’t have infrastructure right, you don’t have anything right.
And healthcare most definitely does not have its infrastructure right.
We’re spending between 15-30% of our healthcare dollar on administration, and no one views our healthcare system as efficient or even particularly effective. We have numerous intermediaries like PBMs, billing services, revenue cycle management vendors, and all sorts of digital health solutions. There are layers upon layers upon layers, each adding its costs and complications.
In some ways, healthcare’s infrastructure has changed remarkably in the last two to three decades. Most transactions – e.g., claims...
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