A new study finds massive waste in U.S. healthcare and asks why no one cares enough to eradicate it.
puts numbers on the scale of that waste and nails down its sources. But it leaves open the question of what to do about it. That’s especially true of the largest single source identified by the authors: “administrative complexity,” which accounts for as much as $265.6 billion in waste a year, or as much as one-third of the total. Yet that’s the one category for which the authors could find not a single article offering solutions for cuts.
The study was published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. by William H. Shrank and Teresa L. Rogstad of Humana, a big health insurance carrier, and Natasha Parekh of the University of Pittsburgh. Removing waste from U.S. health care will require both awakening a sleepy status quo and shifting power to wrest it from the grip of greed.They divided waste in the system into six categories.
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