Payments, Pricing Info, Paperwork May Contribute To Costs, Confusion

| Feb 13, 2010

The way doctors, hospitals and other health care providers are paid creates a so-called “perverse incentive” to order more and more medical services, even when those services do not contribute to better health, according to researchers for Dartmouth’s Atlas of Health, CNN’s investigations unit reports…

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