Avoiding Futile Care and Reducing Medicare Costs
By Jim Sabin, MD If we in the U.S. ever hope to get a grip on Medicare costs, our society will first have to navigate a steep learning curve. That’s
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A New Partnership with Global Health Delivery Online
By Neel Shah, MD MPP and Jordan Harmon, MHA Costs of Care is excited to announce a new partnership with Global Health Delivery (GHD) Online, a platform of expert led
A Simple Way for Physicians to Take Action Against Overtreatment
By Christopher Moriates, MD and Neel Shah, MD MPP “The plural of anecdote is policy,” medical historian and health policy expert Dan Fox famously stated. Sometimes a good anecdote can be
The Costs of Being a Patient and a Doctor
By Jane Liu The cold ultrasound probe pressed uncomfortably onto my abdomen. “It looks like an ovarian cyst,” the pleasant technician told me, “But of course we’ll run it by the
The Simpler Costs
By Olivier Van Houtte In March of last year I began and quickly ended a cycling career. In my first race of the weekend I placed second, and in a
The Wisdom of the Crowd: Finding the Most Promising Innovations to Teach Value
By Vineet Arora, MD MAPP, Chris Moriates, MD, Andy Levy, MD, and Neel Shah MD MPP Earlier this year, we launched the Teaching Value and Choosing Wisely Competition in conjunction with