Value assessments in health care tend to focus on pharmaceuticals rather than services and procedures, despite the outsized contribution of services and procedures to health spending. We use the term ...

The use of low-value procedures, or those that would not be expected to require hospitalization, was linked to more hospital-acquired complications in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. The ...

Low-value procedures have been in the crosshairs for years for the resources they waste. New research further supports the idea that they may also cause more harm than good for the patients they’re ...

Low-value care is the provision of procedures and treatments that provide little or no benefit to patients while increasing the cost of health care. This study examined the provision of low-value care ...

1. Fee-for-service care was strongly associated with higher low-value surgery rates. Across 304,908 outpatient procedures in the Military Health System from 2016 to 2023, low-value surgery occurred at ...