Low-Cost, High-Volume Health Services Contribute The Most To Unnecessary Health Spending [DataWatch]

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).

Source: Health Affairs - October 2, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Mafi, J. N., Russell, K., Bortz, B. A., Dachary, M., Hazel, W. A., Fendrick, A. M. Tags: DataWatch Source Type: research