Tuesday, February 23, 2010

How Much Do You Pay for Medically Unnecessary Treatment?

Could it be $650 billion?

Physicians feel compelled to give medical care and order tests which are not medically necessary. It's called "defensive medicine" and its expensive. Perhaps as much as 25% of each dollar that you spend on healthcare falls into this category.

Read more about it here along with one person's suggestion of what can be done to fix the problem.

No comments:

Post a Comment