Find out which hospitals have the worst track records for overusing these "low-value care" procedures.

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Physicians performed more than 200,000 unnecessary back surgeries on older adults over a three-year period, costing Medicare $1.9 billion over that time, according to new analysis from the Lown ...

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Over three years unnecessary back surgeries have cost Medicare an estimated $1.9 billion, according to an analysis from the Lown Institute. Six things to know: 1. The Lown Institute evaluated Medicare ...

U.S. hospitals have performed more than 200,000 unnecessary vertebroplasty, spinal fusion and laminectomy operations since 2020, costing Medicare nearly $2 billion, according to research from the Lown ...