Want To Cut Medicare Costs? Doc Alliance Points To Seven Procedures To Curtail
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Lumbar spine imaging, electrocardiograms and dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry osteoporosis screening are all interventions that should be performed less routinely to reduce Medicare costs, according to the National Physicians Alliance.
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