Rethinking Medicare and Race, Housing, and Utility Bills-Billions in Medicare Waste: The Hidden Cost of Unnecessary Healthcare

Did you know that Medicare wastes billions annually on low-value healthcare services that offer little to no benefit and sometimes even cause harm? A. Mark Fendrick, MD, Professor of Internal Medicine in the School of Medicine, Professor of Health Management and Policy in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan, reveals how common but unnecessary procedures, like certain prostate cancer screenings in older men, contribute to this wasteful spending. He offers his prescription for money-saving reforms.