As India builds a future ready healthcare ecosystem, the silent burden of biomedical waste demands urgent, coordinated ...

Disposable health care items today create enormous amounts of waste. In the best-case scenario, this waste is incinerated, but in many countries it ends up in landfills, and it can also be ...

Meanwhile, 14 hospitals have been issued a civil monetary penalty by CMS since the enactment of the Hospital Transparency Rule. The share of in-network care increased from about 84% of all claims ...

As health care providers, we routinely see patients on Medicare who need, and deserve, a lot of care. In fact, more than 30% of Medicare patients see five different doctors each year.

How much waste are we talking about? A 2019 report in JAMA estimated that 25% of the nearly $4 trillion U.S. health care budget is wasted, or about $1 trillion annually.

Have you seen examples of health care fraud, waste or abuse? Tell us about it. New York Times reporters are looking into cases of unnecessary and wasteful spending in government health programs.

On February 3rd, the Health Affairs Council on Health Care Spending and Value released its report, "A Road Map for Action." Here, we our Council recommendations on administrative spending and waste.

If policymakers genuinely want to address health care waste, Medicaid is the wrong target. U.S. health care costs are largely driven by inflated, non-transparent pricing and corporate profit-taking.