Prescriptions Blog: Doctors Refer More Patients to Specialists

Monday, January 23, 2012 - 17:10 in Health & Medicine

A new study finds that primary care doctors are referring patients to other doctors at double the rate of a decade ago. The reasons are unclear but the researchers say the practice is driving up health care costs.

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