Value assessments in health care tend to focus on pharmaceuticals rather than services and procedures, despite the outsized contribution of services and procedures to health spending. We use the term ...

How surgeons are paid may meaningfully influence how often patients receive low-value outpatient surgery, with fee-for-service environments linked to higher rates of potentially unnecessary procedures ...

The use of low-value procedures, or those that would not be expected to require hospitalization, was linked to more hospital-acquired complications in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. The ...

Low-value procedures have been in the crosshairs for years for the resources they waste. New research further supports the idea that they may also cause more harm than good for the patients they’re ...

Healthcare providers could significantly reduce costs if they eschew five low-value, often unnecessary emergency medicine procedures, according to a new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. The ...

Citing the 240 percent increase in the cost of emergency care between 2003 and 2011, researchers have created “top five” lists of emergency department tests, treatments and disposition decisions that ...

Healthcare consumers spend $25 billion each year on low-value health procedures that aren’t always necessary, according to the Task Force on Low-Value Care, a multi-stakeholder group established by ...