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The Cost of Care - NGM.com
We already know the United States outspends everyone else on health care and doesn’t have much to show for it. But this NGM post highlights a factor we don’t hear much about: fee-for-service billing.
It means a doctor who does more tests and procedures gets paid more than one who doesn’t. It’s one reason that pediatricians make so much less than, say, cardiologists. And it’s a major reason that patients have been coached to demand MRIs, CT scans and other often-unnecessary tests that lead to often-unnecessary treatments.

Says Gerard Anderson, a professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who studies health insurance worldwide, “More care does not necessarily mean better care.”

I know we’re all tired of health care talk, but this graphic is worth a click (whole thing here).

The Cost of Care - NGM.com

We already know the United States outspends everyone else on health care and doesn’t have much to show for it. But this NGM post highlights a factor we don’t hear much about: fee-for-service billing.

It means a doctor who does more tests and procedures gets paid more than one who doesn’t. It’s one reason that pediatricians make so much less than, say, cardiologists. And it’s a major reason that patients have been coached to demand MRIs, CT scans and other often-unnecessary tests that lead to often-unnecessary treatments.

Says Gerard Anderson, a professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who studies health insurance worldwide, “More care does not necessarily mean better care.”

I know we’re all tired of health care talk, but this graphic is worth a click (whole thing here).