News tagged with healthcare expenditures

Medicare reimbursement change meant to save money has opposite effect

Increased Medicare payments to physicians for outpatient surgeries for bladder cancer have led to a dramatic rise in the number of these procedures being performed and an overall increase in cost to the healthcare system. ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Bad medicine: Health care can cause harm when focus is on providing services instead of improving health

Are individuals, families, communities and employers getting their money's worth from US healthcare? That's the big question in the news today, pushed further into the spotlight by the Obama administration.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 9