tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 6

STUDIES & SURVEYS: Less Is More, Says MedPAC

Some regions of the country are spending 60 percent more per patient on health care than others. But those regions aren't delivering better care, say researchers. If anything, those regions produce the same outcomes as their more frugal counterparts, or even slightly worse ones, according to researchers led by Dartmouth Medical School's Elliot Fisher, MD. Survival rates for patients in high-spending regions were worse, according to a study Fisher and company published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Now the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission plans to pick up these data for its June report. At a March 20 hearing...

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