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Cost to create a medical bill? $99k per year per doctor

Researchers from Duke University and Harvard Business School, reconstructed the whole life cycle of a medical bill to calculate exactly how much the process of billing costs.

By Marlene Y. Satter | Updated on February 21, 2018
The big kahuna of medical bills is a hospitalization that requires surgery, which incurs $215.10 in billing and a 100 minutes of processing time. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Who knew the cost of medical billing was such a significant factor of the high cost of health care?

A new report in the Journal of the American Medical Association spells out in dollars and cents just how much it costs to manage bills for health care. The Los Angeles Times reports that, according to the analysis, the cost of collecting payments for just one primary-care physician at a large academic medical center runs more than $99,000 a year.

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