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

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10. Your experience seems to have been worse than what the article describes

I've known nurses who worked for doctors who refuse to use a pen, or who never write anything down, or who refuse to use the designated codes and instead require their scribes to sort it out. My sense is that a great deal of the resistance to these changes originates with the doctors rather than their staffs.

Frankly, if it's costing an office $40K annually due to lost productivity, then that simply means they have $40K to pay an additional employee specifically to take care of that paperwork. This way the clinical personnel are freed up to tend to patients. Many offices have done something like this for years already.

An office manager (or equivalent) is tasked with administrative functions that would otherwise be dumped on the clinical staff.

If you're "spending the afternoon shuffling paper," then I infer that you aren't sitting with a patient during that time, so an appropriately trained clerical worker should be able to handle it.

Your time would be better spent, the patients would be better served, and another person would have a job. It's a win-win-win situation all around.