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6 July 2015
Anonymous employee
Former employee, more than 3 years
Washington, DC
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Dedicated communications team, despite leadership and agency turnover.
Cons
The US spends $361 billion annually on health care administration — more than twice its total spending on heart disease and three times the spending on cancer. According to the IOM, fully half of these expenditures are unnecessary. CAQH efforts are a drop in the bucket against this problem. Staff efforts are laudable, but there's no vision at the top, coupled with insane micromanagement by the ED. Changing IT platforms every couple of years won't make CAQH, its member plans, doctors and hospitals more efficient. It's just re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic.