Patients who find time to ask their doctors about the cost of a proposed test or treatment are often wasting their time. Medical education traditionally avoids the subject, and medical billing is probably just as puzzling to physicians as it is to patients.
Doctors in training at the University of California, San Francisco, saying it’s “increasingly…
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Consumer Reports is a partner in the Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference, set for Sept. 10-12, 2013, at Dartmouth College.
The U.S. spends more than $200 billion on unnecessary medical care each year, according to recent estimates published in the BMJ. Ever-more sensitive screening tests, combined with the broadening of disease definitions leads to patients experiencing increasing amount of medic,al treatments and…
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has organized a month-long effort to focus attention on the national problem of people returning to the hospital soon after they are discharged. Care About Your Care aims to shine a spotlight on how hospitals and communities are working to limit avoidable return trips to the hospital.
As its contribution to the…