Healthcare care systems see greatest return on investment

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1. Inyour opinion, where will healthcare care systems see the greatest return on investment? Waste? Fraud? Or is there some other cost saving mechanism that the course misses?

2. "Some of these are controlling fees and provider incomes, cutting the price of pharmaceuticals and other supplies, reducing administrative waste, eliminating medical interventions of no benefit, substituting less costly technologies that are equally effective, and increasing the provision of those preventative services that cost less than the illnesses they prevent. " Great summary, Nathan.

In our text, Bodenheimer talks about Mechanisms for Controlling Costs. (Chapter 9, 2012). These are not the only recommendations to be familiar with. I have attached the CDC's Preventive Care Guidelines for 2017. It gives age ranges for certain testing. On some of the tests ages that have caused controversy about age ranges, they have simply put 'Talk to your doctor'. There is also a Guideline for those over 65. It cuts off many tests, such as mammography, after age 75 as unnecessary, men over 65 are no longer recommended PSAs.

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What do you think? What would be more effective in controlling costs? Why?

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