Yes, and eliminating paper pushers and compliance monitors would free up dollars for more medical staff.
More than that it would free up doctors & nurses time.
It used to be that the most important part of meeting a patient was to look & listen, concentrate on what they were saying but also what you observed.
Today most physicians have so much paperwork that they see patients with laptops or workstations in front of them and glance at the patient while thinking which column to check or how to rate each item on the screen. They are still looking at the screen finishing up the paperwork as they generate a list of tests and cost codes.
That is the real damage that has been done. The focus has been shifted from patient care to dealing with the bureaucratic workload. That has had a devastating effect on patient care and both patient & doctor satisfaction.
A large % of a doctor’s staff are personnel to fight through the swamp of insurance forms & pre-authorizations, personnel to make sure all the rules on HIPA, lab protocols, testing of equipment etc are maintained. More could be done with less staff if they weren’t required to deal with the above. That would bring costs down in a hurry. People do not realize that for the office to function it is as many as 6 compliance/insurance people for 1-2 doctors depending on specialty. It used to be 1-3 people.