The use of low-value procedures, or those that would not be expected to require hospitalization, was linked to more hospital-acquired complications in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. The ...

Low-value procedures have been in the crosshairs for years for the resources they waste. New research further supports the idea that they may also cause more harm than good for the patients they’re ...

Low-value care is the provision of procedures and treatments that provide little or no benefit to patients while increasing the cost of health care. This study examined the provision of low-value care ...

How surgeons are paid may meaningfully influence how often patients receive low-value outpatient surgery, with fee-for-service environments linked to higher rates of potentially unnecessary procedures ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s recent settlement in the latest chapter of the enforcement proceeding involving Morgan Keegan provides important guideposts on two of the hottest ...