Drew Albert
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Drew Albert
@DrewAlbertMD
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Ways and Means Committee Chairman @RepJasonSmith lectures hospital CEOs: “the prices you charge are borderline extortion.” Hospital costs have soared 300% in two decades. Time to end hospital billing and insurance reimbursement scams in Medicare/Medicaid.

One of the hardest things about practicing medicine is something doctors get virtually no formal training in: navigating friction in advancing patient care. Our health care system is a massive, complex bureaucracy; doing things that seem relatively straightforward—like discharging a patient—require checking dozens of boxes. There are lots of people in the hospital who facilitate this, but as the doctor, you’re the point person; you need to get the paperwork done, orders in, prescriptions delivered, insurance sorted, follow ups arranged, right people looped in, and so on. For every task you’re not directly in charge of, you have to ensure that the person who is in charge is on the ball. Doing this well requires having incredible organizational/management skills. But no one ever formally teaches you these skills; you learn (or fail to learn) them on the job. Having never gotten formal training in this, my prior is that these skills are hard to teach well. But if they *were* taught well to doctors, I suspect our health care system would run better and that health care workers would be less stressed out.



