Physicians Spend at Least Three Hours Per Week Handling Insurers Administrative Requirements

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Strategic Health Care News The average primary care physician spent 3.5 hours per week on health plans’ administrative requirements while medical specialists spent an average of 2.6 hours and surgical specialists spent 2.1 hours. The time spent on dealing with health plans’ administrative requirements, varied by specialty and practice size. In general, smaller practices had higher costs to handle the administrative requirements. In 2006 the costs involved were estimated as follows: In primary care practices, costs ranged from a low of $57, 480 for practices with ten or more doctors to $72 . . .