According to a 2021 health care systems ranking among selected high-income countries, the United States came last in the overall ranking of its health care system performance. The overall ranking was based on five performance categories, including access to care, care process, administrative efficiency, equity, and health care outcomes. For the category administrative efficiency, which measures the amount of paperwork for providers and patients in the health system, the U.S. was ranked last, while Norway took first place. This could be because the health system in the U.S. is a multi-payer system, while Norway has a single-payer system, which most likely simplifies documentation and billing tasks.
This statistic present the health care administrative efficiency rankings of the United States' health care system compared to ten other high-income countries in 2021.
Administrative efficiency ranking of the United States' health system compared to ten other high-income countries in 2021
Five performance categories include:
Access to care includes measures of health care’s affordability
and timeliness.
Care process includes measures of preventive care, safe care, coordinated care, and engagement and patient preferences.
Administrative efficiency refers to how well health systems reduce documentation (paperwork) and other bureaucratic tasks that patients and clinicians frequently face during care.
Equity focuses on income-related disparities, based on standardized data across the 11 analyzed countries, in the access to care, care process, and administrative efficiency performance domains.
Health care outcomes reported here refer to those health outcomes that are most likely to be responsive to health care.
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Commonwealth Fund. (August 4, 2021). Administrative efficiency ranking of the United States' health system compared to ten other high-income countries in 2021 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 21, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1290426/health-care-system-administrative-efficiency-ranking-of-select-countries/
Commonwealth Fund. "Administrative efficiency ranking of the United States' health system compared to ten other high-income countries in 2021." Chart. August 4, 2021. Statista. Accessed December 21, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1290426/health-care-system-administrative-efficiency-ranking-of-select-countries/
Commonwealth Fund. (2021). Administrative efficiency ranking of the United States' health system compared to ten other high-income countries in 2021. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 21, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1290426/health-care-system-administrative-efficiency-ranking-of-select-countries/
Commonwealth Fund. "Administrative Efficiency Ranking of The United States' Health System Compared to Ten Other High-income Countries in 2021." Statista, Statista Inc., 4 Aug 2021, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1290426/health-care-system-administrative-efficiency-ranking-of-select-countries/
Commonwealth Fund, Administrative efficiency ranking of the United States' health system compared to ten other high-income countries in 2021 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1290426/health-care-system-administrative-efficiency-ranking-of-select-countries/ (last visited December 21, 2024)
Administrative efficiency ranking of the United States' health system compared to ten other high-income countries in 2021 [Graph], Commonwealth Fund, August 4, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1290426/health-care-system-administrative-efficiency-ranking-of-select-countries/
