
Healthcare Cost Containment Not High Priority for Most Physicians
When it comes to controlling healthcare costs, only 36% of physicians agree that practicing physicians have a major responsibility to participate in cost containment, according to a recent study.
When it comes to controlling healthcare costs, only 36% of physicians agree that practicing physicians have a “major responsibility” to participate in cost containment, according to a recently published Journal of the American Medical Association study, "Views of U.S. Physicians About Controlling Health Care Costs.”
More than half of the 2,556 physicians who responded to a survey said trial lawyers, health insurance companies, hospitals and health systems, pharmaceutical and device manufacturers, and patients have a major responsibility for controlling healthcare costs.
In an
Christopher Moriates, MD, a hospitalist at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) who developed a cost-awareness curriculum for physicians and serves as co-chair of
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Source: The Hospitalist
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