Medical secretaries & administrative assistants

How it is built

961,610 people × $46,800 average annual wage

Part of: Hospital, physician, and other service spending (wages are paid out of what payers spend on services)

Details

Problems this cost relates to

• About $1 trillion a year in administrative cost
• Simplifying billing would displace hundreds of thousands of workers
• Prior authorization delays and blocks care
• Clinician burnout from paperwork and EHR work