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>30% of hospital payroll is admin staff

Interesting. Any links to back this up?

Overstated by 5%, but still crazy: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/in-the-literatu...

Ah, it's all administrative costs, not just payroll. That's more reasonable.

I know this is getting down into the weeds of accounting, but what would be an administrative cost that is not payroll?

I just know from my own business that most of the big numbers that go through admin (like benefits, insurance, etc) end up itemized in other columns, and admin itself is all payroll.

Anything administrative paid to a third-party vendor is administrative cost but not payroll. For example, the EPIC software license fee is admin but not payroll.

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