re: #215 iossarian

Exactly. Of course, this kind of bureaucracy is part and parcel of a healthcare system that relies on payment for service (and a dizzying array of sources for that payment) rather than direct compensation.

Which is not to say that single payer eliminates the complexity and possibility of fraud altogether, just that a substantial part of the savings comes from overhead reduction.

Also, if all a provider is doing is changing their address then they aren’t filling out the entire form again. They’re digging up their saved copy of the .pdf, updating a few lines, printing the revised document, signing it and sending it in.