Low-value care most common among systems with fewer primary care physicians, investor ownership

Fierce Health Payers January 19, 2022
Dave Muoio

High bed counts, few primary care physicians and investor ownership are common themes among health systems frequently delivering low- or no-value medical services, according to a recent analysis.

Health systems that had a greater number of medical groups were also associated with healthcare overuse, per the study based on a Johns Hopkins analysis of 676 U.S. health systems, while those with teaching hospitals or a greater burden of uncompensated care were less likely to deliver the cost-driving procedures.

“Overuse of health care, or the provision of low-value or no-value care, is consistently identified as contributing to high costs in the US health care system,” the researchers wrote in JAMA Health Forum. “This wasteful care is physically, psychologically and financially...

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