4sight Health April 6, 2022
Self-employed people — like many freelance healthcare writers, producers, designers and public relations professionals I know and/or work with — don’t have any employees and do their own billing. It’s a bit of a hassle, and no one pays them for their time tracking hours, putting together invoices and sending them out. But they don’t mind doing it. I mean, if they don’t bill for their work, people won’t pay them.
Doctors, though, don’t seem to like billing for their work. In fact, they don’t mind clinical documentation as much as they mind financial documentation. At least according to a recent research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine. You can download the short though enlightening research letter here.
Seven researchers,...