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11 October
5:16 pm

We have eight administrators for every one physician in a health care operation because of government compliance and the billing complexities.

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Kasie Whitener, at South Carolina U.S. Senate General Election Debate (SCETV)

5:16 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific ratio of administrators to physicians is a concrete, verifiable figure that could mislead voters about the causes of healthcare administrative bloat.
What we foundThe claim that there are eight administrators per physician is directionally consistent with a widely repeated figure, but the most commonly cited ratio is ten-to-one, not eight-to-one, while BLS data using narrower definitions shows a much lower ratio — the exact figure depends heavily on how 'administrator' is defined.
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