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Low-Cost, High-Volume Health Services Contribute The Most To Unnecessary Health Spending
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https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.2017.0385?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub=pubmedNo data is associated with this publication.
Abstract
An analysis of data for 2014 about forty-four low-value health services in the Virginia All Payer Claims Database revealed more than $586 million in unnecessary costs. Among these low-value services, those that were low and very low cost ($538 or less per service) were delivered far more frequently than services that were high and very high cost ($539 or more). The combined costs of the former group were nearly twice those of the latter (65 percent versus 35 percent).
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