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New Polls of Nurses and Physicians Finds Advancing Healthin America

The majority of nurses and physicians say that health insurer
policies are a barrier to patient care.

 

Nurses report insurers' administrative requirements:
@ 0 Delay patients' access
0O to necessary care
fifi 0 Reduce patients'
G 0O quality of care

Interfere with patients

63 % being transferred to the
right care setting

 

Physicians report insurers' administrative requirements:

0/ Affect their ability to
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Advancing Health in America

The burden of these policies is increasing.

82%

Nurses report the amount of administrative paperwork required has increased
in the past few years

94%

Physicians think it has become more financially and administratively difficult
to operate a solo practice

 

 

 

These policies are driving physicians out of solo practices, and
driving nurses away from the profession altogether.

 

 
 

Nurses report that their job satisfaction has decreased
due to insurer-required administrative tasks.

56%

Physicians report that the administrative burden
from payers (i.e. prior authorization, etc.) has an
impact in their ability to operate a solo practice.

   

84%

Need for Action

Some commercial health insurers have implemented policies that affect physicians' and nurses' ability

to practice medicine and provide high quality and timely care. These policies add billions of dollars in
unnecessary administrative costs to the health care system while compromising patient care and burning out
our caretakers. Commercial health plan abuses must be addressed to protect patients' health and ensure that
medical professionals, not the insurance industry, are making the key decisions in patient care.

Morning Consult surveyed nurses and physicians on behalf of the American Hospital Association. A nationally representative sample of 500 nurses
responded to the poll between March 1 and March 10, 2023, and a nationally representative sample of 500 physicians responded to the poll between
March 30 and April 7, 2023. The interviews were conducted online. The full survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

 

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