overutilization

Atul Gawande argues that the problem with healthcare in the US is overutilization.

The solution to test overutilization is not making tests cheaper so folks can get more tests at Walgreens.

Maximizing shareholder value leads to higher prices, overutilization of expensive proceedures and prioritization of profit generating services vs.

As an insurance company, building robust systems that authorize necessary care while catching overbilling, overutilization and outright fraud is unfathomably complex and error prone.

I think it is largely due to overutilization & misallocation, combined with some poor genetic/cultural luck around opioids and obesity.

It feels heavy with an overutilization of negative space.

I think having cost be the anti-abuse disincentive is the worst of all worlds -- cost is clearly not an effective deterrent of abuse given our current state of overutilization.

That it is extremely cheap and allows people to bid up the price of care on the consumer side is part of the problem, there is no triage or disincentive from overutilization because of how little cost share there is.

I can only assume that the few parts in british english are the human author's writing or edits), yes "overutilization" is not a real thing.

The rhetoric of medical reform draws mostly on economics: Experts differ over, among other things, how to structure “insurance mandates” and what constitutes “overutilization” of a rapidly expanding array of high-tech procedures and diagnostic tests.

Overutilization (partially due to fear of malpractice lawsuits, partially due to overexpansion of insurance) 7.

Overutilization of AI is pulling the ladder up and preventing the next generation of software architects and engineers from learning through experience.