Medicaid Reimbursements: The More Doctors Get Paid, The More Likely They Do Cancer Screening
Sunday, August 24, 2014 - 23:40
in Health & Medicine
Cancer screening is one of the controversial aspects of health care; America has long had a 'defensive medicine' problem, where in some cases doctors and hospitals run many unnecessary tests to check off the boxes so that if something does go wrong, lawyers won't be shedding tears in court about how the greedy or incompetent medical community ruins lives.Then in other cases doctors may be running tests with little value because the effect on patients is psychological or it won't be meaningful, such as in cancer screening for the elderly. Then there is the issue where it's good business. read more