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NEW YORK, Feb. 11 (UPI) — An attempt to reduce Medicare costs by allowing doctor’s office biopsies for bladder cancer pushed costs up 50 percent, U.S. researchers found. (Source: Health News – UPI.com)

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Changes in Medicare reimbursement meant to cut costs in bladder cancer appear to have the increased them, at least in one academic practice. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines) Source: MedWorm: Bladder Cancer

Reuters: “Medicare’s move in 2005 to pay doctors to do bladder cancer surgery in their offices rather than in hospitals dramatically raised the number of procedures and overall health costs, U.S. researchers said on Monday. … The findings reflect the complexity of cutting health costs in the United States, showing how in some cases Medicare — the insurance program for the elderly and disabled — gives doctors incentives to provide too much care, they said… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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Incentive To Treat Bladder Cancer In Doctors' Offices Raised Medicare Costs NPR (blog) Overall costs to Medicare for bladder cancer rose about 50 percent, says a study of the changes at a New York practice just published online by the journal … Study shows how Medicare rewards MDs for overuseReuters Medicare Reimbursement Change Meant to Save Money Has Opposite EffectScience Daily (press release) Medicare Increases Surgery Numbers and CostsHULIQ TopNews United States -PR-CANADA.net (press release) all 39 news articles »

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