Waste in the Medicare Program: a National Cross-Sectional Analysis of 2017 Low-Value Service Use and Spending

J Gen Intern Med. 2021 Aug;36(8):2478-2482. doi: 10.1007/s11606-020-06061-0. Epub 2020 Jul 29.

Rachel O Reid^{1

2

3}, John N Mafi^{4

5}, Lesley H Baseman⁶, A Mark Fendrick^{7

8}, Cheryl L Damberg⁵

¹ RAND Corporation, Boston, MA, USA. rreid@rand.org.
² Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. rreid@rand.org.
³ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. rreid@rand.org.
⁴ David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁵ RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, USA.
⁶ RAND Corporation, Boston, MA, USA.
⁷ Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
⁸ Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

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