These new findings challenge long-held beliefs, beliefs that even influenced the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, reports KHN.
From KHN:
“The new paper is one of the sharpest attacks yet on the work of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, whose three decades of research has popularized the theory that the unexplained regional differences in spending are due to the aggressiveness of some physicians to do more, in large part because it enriches them.
“Dartmouth’s research has influenced a generation of health policy thinking. It helped provide a rationale for part of the health law that pushes hospitals to operate more efficiently by penalizing high cost ones. Dartmouth researchers were also among the original architects of ‘Accountable Care Organizations,’ to create financial incentives for physicians to avoid unneeded tests and treatments.”Read more.
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