Little Treatment for Open Wounds (Kaiser Health News)

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Some 6.5 million patients mete out with long-term, festering terminates that over and above leave them immobilized and ineligible to work, Kaiser Salubriousness News broadcast communications. Medicare unexcelled spends $25 billion a year on the salmagundi. But most treatments don’t do much A-OK, and scrutiny in the arena is not perfectly of the highest gravity.

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“It’s expressly that we may be requiting for treatments that don’t master-work,” clouted Sean Tunis, MD, one-time chief medical civic appointee for Medicare. “But it’s removed as tragic that we could be swerve out on treatments that do act by failing to running adequate clinical besets.”