BIR is 8.5% of provider spending, once you add the multiple cells up that constitute providers.

I don't think your argument is going to survive contact with the numbers here.

I just don't believe that it's correct. The Kraken hides here: Hospital Expenditures - 31.2%

I have a bit of personal experience here. I had a partner working as an endocrinologist, one of the higher-compensated medical professions. They were spending at least 1 _hour_ every day on calls with the insurance companies for prior authorization instead of seeing patients.

Some things are also weirdly broken down:

> Net Cost of Health Insurance Expenditures - 6.2% > Administration and Net Cost of Health Insurance - 7.4%

Why are they split?

I also suspect that they included some admin personnel cost in the physician/nurse salary. For my partner, their office employed a person just to deal with insurance. There is no easy way to break down these costs for small practices.

	▲	tptacek a day ago \| parent [-]
		It's the CME NHE. It's literally the same data this study is based on. It's what every study of health care spending in the US is based on. And they're not split: one row is an aggregate of subsequent rows, as you can see by simply adding them up. This is just a colorized table view of a spreadsheet Medicare publishes every year.