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

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5. An Acceptable Amount

of paperwork is the amount of time it takes to do the paperwork that is relevant to good patient care. I spend a good bit of time writing boilerplate so Medicare can check a box that I wrote something the way they want. What I could document in a sentence takes a paragraph. Some of it is utterly meaningless except to meet a requirement. Some things must be documented in several places instead of just one. I am jaded at this point. I will spend more time documenting what I did than actually doing stuff if that's what is required, I don't even blink anymore. When people ask me about my field I tell them to avoid it if they have any notion of doing good work.