What Does It Cost Physician Practices to Interact With Health Insurance Plans?

dc.contributor.author	Nicholson, Sean
dc.date.accessioned	2010-06-10T20:11:26Z
dc.date.available	2010-06-10T20:11:26Z
dc.date.issued	2009
dc.description.abstract	Physicians have long expressed dissatisfaction with the time they and their staffs spend interacting with health plans. However, little information exists about the extent of these interactions.We conducted a national survey on this subject of physicians and practice administrators. Physicians reported spending three hours weekly interacting with plans; nursing and clerical staff spent much larger amounts of time. When time is converted to dollars, we estimate that the national time cost to practices of interactions with plans is at least $23 billion to $31 billion each year. [Health Affairs 28, no. 4 (2009): w533– w543 (published online 14 May 2009; 10.1377/hlthaff.28.4.w533)]	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Health Affairs web exclusive, May 14, 2009: w533-w543	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1813/15096
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	Policy Analysis and Management	en_US
dc.title	What Does It Cost Physician Practices to Interact With Health Insurance Plans?	en_US
dc.type	article	en_US

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