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The $4,450 Urgent Care Visit: Assessing Systemic Waste in Health Care
Center for Health Media & Policy at Hunter College Link to more items from this source
[Opinion]
Mar. 27, 2013
"[One study] estimated annual excess cost from systemic waste at $765 billion -- including $210 billion in unnecessary services, $130 billion in inefficiently delivered services, $190 billion in excess administration costs, $105 billion in excessively high prices, $55 billion on missed opportunities for disease prevention, and $75 billion in fraud.... [T]his problem, by comparison to other obstacles that face the US healthcare system, seems to be somewhat easier to remedy. One way to do so is through transparency[.]"

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