Sources of Low-Value Care Received by Medicare Beneficiaries and Associated Spending Within US Health Systems

Emma D Chant; Maia Crawford; Ching-Wen Wendy Yang; Elliott S Fisher; Nancy E Morden; Ishani Ganguli

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.33505

Sources of Low-Value Care Received by Medicare Beneficiaries and Associated Spending Within US Health Systems

JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Sep 5;6(9):e2333505. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.33505.

Authors

Emma D Chant¹, Maia Crawford², Ching-Wen Wendy Yang², Elliott S Fisher², Nancy E Morden², Ishani Ganguli^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
² The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire.
³ Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study examines referrals for low-value health care services and associated spending by ordering clinician among Medicare beneficiaries.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Aged
Government Programs
Humans
Low-Value Care*
Medicare*
United States

Plain language summary

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding