Low-value medical tests are costly, can lead to harm
We know too well the cost of American health care keeps rising as far as the eye can see. In 1995 health care accounted for 13.4 percent of GDP; in 2018 it consumed 17.7 percent. It is projected to rise even more.
Despite all the talk about how they should become wise consumers of medical care, patients can’t really do much to stop the big hospital systems, the big physician groups,...