Berwick: Six categories represent 20% of nation's health care expenditures

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Modern Healthcare: Berwick Targets Waste In Healthcare Expenditures
In an article in the April 11 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Donald Berwick, former CMS administrator and current senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and Andrew Hackbarth, an assistant policy analyst for the RAND Corp., listed six categories of waste they say represent more than 20% of the nation's ever-increasing healthcare expenditures... Those six areas-;fraud and abuse, poor care coordination, failures of care delivery, overtreatment, administrative complexity and overpricing of services-;represent enormous opportunities for cost-cutting and improvement, the authors said (McKinney, 4/10).


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