healthcare waste

Surgeons, receiving fee-for-service payments, obtain a global fee to cover the care involved before surgery, the surgery itself, care during the hospitalization, and out-patient follow-up care for 10 or 90 days depending on the extent of the surgi

The second week in a row that a blockbuster article on health has been published; this time an article on “waste” in the US healthcare system published in JAMA.