Payer Type and Low-Value Care: Comparing Choosing Wisely Services across Commercial and Medicare Populations
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How prevalent and costly are Choosing Wisely low-value services? Evidence from Medicare beneficiaries.
(1) Through the Choosing Wisely initiative, medical specialty societies identified non-indicated cardiac testing in low-risk patients and short-interval dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) or bone density testing as low-value care. (2) Nationally, 13 percent of low-risk Medicare beneficiaries received non-indicated cardiac tests, and 10 percent of DXAs reimbursed by Medicare were administere...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Services Research
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0017-9124
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12665