Flip side of innovation: What causes doctors to scale back on the use of medical practices

from Google Alert at http://bit.ly/2zBjvFP on November 28, 2017 at 11:18PM

All countries face the challenge of funding ever-new and expensive treatments, with increasing pressure on budgets, harmful deficit spending, and ever-higher health insurance premiums. One solution to these concerns is to scale back on outdated or low-value procedures; not unlike clearing out one’s …