Embracing risk-based care models could ultimately lead to better physician job satisfaction by creating stronger incentives for health systems to free them from low-value administrative tasks, according to Tufts Medicine President & CEO Michael Dandorph, the current secretary of MHA’s Board of Trustees.

Dandorph shared his insights in a Q & A yesterday with Becker’s Hospital Review.

“We’re having a lot of conversations with payers about how it serves both them and us if we can reduce the administrative burdens that often sit on the backs of our physicians,” Dandorph said in response to a question that noted 83% of physicians reported being at or above workload capacity in their current practice. “I do think that’s something we can make a meaningful impact on in the short term; in the next three to five years, incrementally. How do we take some of that work away from the physician? Do we have to staff differently around it, or are there ways that we could just eliminate things that are really not adding value? One of the reasons we want to take on more risk is so we can avoid some of those administrative burdens, and not replace them with something else, but truly eliminate the need for things that just really aren’t improving the level of care, the cost of care, or access.”

Read the full interview here.