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Low-Cost, High-Volume Health Services Contribute The Most To Unnecessary Health Spending.

ABSTRACT: An analysis of data for 2014 about forty-four low-value health services in the Virginia All Payer Claims Database revealed more than $586 million in unnecessary costs. Among these low-value services, those that were low and very low cost ($538 or less per service) were delivered far more frequently than services that were high and very high cost ($539 or more). The combined costs of the former group were nearly twice those of the latter (65 percent versus 35 percent).

SUBMITTER: Mafi JN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6727655 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Low-Cost, High-Volume Health Services Contribute The Most To Unnecessary Health Spending.

Mafi John N JN   Russell Kyle K   Bortz Beth A BA   Dachary Marcos M   Hazel William A WA   Fendrick A Mark AM  

Health affairs (Project Hope) 20171001 10

An analysis of data for 2014 about forty-four low-value health services in the Virginia All Payer Claims Database revealed more than $586 million in unnecessary costs. Among these low-value services, those that were low and very low cost ($538 or less per service) were delivered far more frequently than services that were high and very high cost ($539 or more). The combined costs of the former group were nearly twice those of the latter (65 percent versus 35 percent). ...[more]

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