Who's Behind High Health Care Costs? Maybe the Middlemen With the Clipboards

摘要

Reimbursements continue to diminish, while the costs of doing business steadily increase. Meanwhile, we don't seem to have lost any of our middlemen. In fact, the offered solutions usually seem to involve the creation of even more middlemen, who we are told will increase our efficiency and help us streamline our operation. Middlemen who will hold clipboards, sit in meetings, and spew words like "quality" and "compliance" when they have to show what they've contributed to the system.