Bad Practices Net Hospitals More Money: The Waste in Medicare Spending

Medicare's handling of Palm Beach Gardens is an extreme example of a pervasive problem that costs the federal insurance program billions of dollars a year while rewarding doctors, hospitals and health plans for bad medicine. In Medicare's upside-down reimbursement system, hospitals and doctors who order unnecessary tests, provide poor care or even injure patients often receive higher payments than those who provide efficient, high-quality medicine.

Posted by James Zellmer at July 25, 2005 8:17 AM | Subscribe to this site via RSS:
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