Medical technology accounts for OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) spending rates differences
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Variations in the frequency of use of expensive medical procedures help to explain in part differences in overall healthcare spending between the US and other countries. Indeed, by the end of the last decade, rates of use of coronary artery bypass grafts (CABG) and coronary angioplasty in the US were nearly double those in the next highest user countries, and spending as a percentage of GDP was 13% in the US, nearly double that of other countries.