Blogger's Note/Opinion: the examples of fraud in healthcare (lots of examples internationally) are rarely, publicly connected to the bottom line, so congrats to Berwick on this issue; if all medical fraud activity/costs were accounted directly in healthcare financial bottom-lines, then free healthcare for all would be available, someone (not me) should take on this project; eg: Ontario e-health scandal; executive buyouts, U.S. clinics defraud of Medicare claims (not accounting errors but outright fraud) ............Berwick's estimate is most likely low but what is not in this particular article is the cost of under-treatment eg. in our case of ovarian cancer the costs of second primary debulking surgery (except to say included in poor care delivery possibly)
Berwick: Six Categories Represent 20% Of Nation's Health Care Expenditures - Kaiser Health News
Berwick: Six Categories Represent 20% Of Nation's Health Care Expenditures
Modern Healthcare: Berwick Targets Waste In Healthcare Expenditures
In an article in the April 11 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Donald Berwick, former CMS administrator and current senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and Andrew Hackbarth, an assistant policy analyst for the RAND Corp., listed six categories of waste they say represent more than 20% of the nation's ever-increasing healthcare expenditures... Those six areas—fraud and abuse, poor care coordination, failures of care delivery, overtreatment, administrative complexity and overpricing of services—represent enormous opportunities for cost-cutting and improvement, the authors said (McKinney, 4/10).
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In an article in the April 11 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Donald Berwick, former CMS administrator and current senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and Andrew Hackbarth, an assistant policy analyst for the RAND Corp., listed six categories of waste they say represent more than 20% of the nation's ever-increasing healthcare expenditures... Those six areas—fraud and abuse, poor care coordination, failures of care delivery, overtreatment, administrative complexity and overpricing of services—represent enormous opportunities for cost-cutting and improvement, the authors said (McKinney, 4/10).
