US Physician Practices Spend More Than $15.4 Billion Annually To Report Quality Measures

[RobinA]

2. Medicare

is a huge part of the problem. I am not medical staff, but I work in a hospital in direct contact with patients. My job is clinical, not administrative. I spend a good bit of my time meeting time-consuming paperwork requirements that benefit the patient or the process of caring for the patient not at all. Which doesn't take into consideration the staff members who do nothing BUT shuffle paper to satisfy Medicare. If we took all the man hours spent meeting paperwork requirements and making sure we are meeting paperwork requirements, and put it towards actually caring for patients, we might actually have something.