Bureaucracy Consumes One-Quarter of US Hospitals' Budgets

A study of hospital administrative costs in eight nations finds that hospital bureaucracy consumed 25.3 percent of hospital budgets in the U.S. in 2011, far more than in other nations. The study got published in the September issue of iHealth Affairs/i. Administrative costs were lowest (about 12 percent) in Scotland and Canada, whose single-payer systems fund hospitals through global, lump-sum budgets, much as a fire department is funded in the U.S. The ...

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