How Hospitals Waste Billions on Unnecessary Treatments

The Leonard Lopate Show | Dec 5, 2017

Journalist Marshall Allen joins us to discuss his recent investigation for ProPublica: “A Hospital Charged $1,877 to Pierce a 5-Year-Old’s Ears. This Is Why Health Care Costs So Much.” He reveals how an epidemic of unnecessary treatment is wasting billions of healthcare dollars a year. Some particularly absurd examples include how two women were given unnecessary pregnancy tests even though one was 82 years old and the other, though younger, no longer had a uterus.

 

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