By Shankar Vedantam, Tara Boyle, Parth Shah, and Jennifer Schmidt, National Public Radio, September 2020
In the United States, healthcare providers are typically paid based on services provided. The more tests a patient undergoes, the bigger the bill.
Vivian Lee, a radiologist and healthcare executive, says this fee-for-service business model needs to be reconsidered.
"You're rewarding people doing things to other people. And actually, in many cases, you're rewarding that regardless of whether it actually improves a person's health. So as long as you do a lot of procedures, as long as you poke and prod patients and do more colonoscopies or operations or administer expensive chemotherapeutic agents, the more you do to them, the more money you make."
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