News flash: Ordering more tests increases health care spending. “Dr. Brenda Sirovich, assistant professor of medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, published a report last week in which she and her research team concluded that higher health care spending is driven in large part by physicians ordering more tests, referrals and treatments.”
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