DEC-1982
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I was reading an article yesterday in the latest issue (Dec 31, 2018) of Barron's magazine. It is about a study and a Dec 17 report in the Journal of American Medical Association-Internal Medicine "JAMA" finding suggestive evidence that doctors misdiagnose patients to enrich themselves.
“ The JAMA study counted the stenting procedures in outpatient facilities on patients diagnosed with unstable angina.” “ ...unstable angina usually means that a person is having a heart attack, meaning that there shouldn't be many outpatient procedures for this acute condition. A doctor typically should rush such a patient to the emergency room, not schedule them for an elective procedure, the study said.”
"In Florida, the number of outpatient procedures for such acute diagnoses increased by some 50% from 2010 to 2014. in Michigan, the increase was threefold. In New York, tenfold."
“After large-scale clinical trials failed to show stenting reduced the risk of heart attack or death in patients with stable angina, the recommended treatment became medicine and stress-monitoring. New York's Medicaid program started refusing payment for inappropriate stenting. That was around the time that New York diagnoses for acute conditions like unstable angina started to rise, from 0.6% of outpatient procedures in 2010 to 8% in 2014, according to the recent JAMA study.”
“ The JAMA study counted the stenting procedures in outpatient facilities on patients diagnosed with unstable angina.” “ ...unstable angina usually means that a person is having a heart attack, meaning that there shouldn't be many outpatient procedures for this acute condition. A doctor typically should rush such a patient to the emergency room, not schedule them for an elective procedure, the study said.”
"In Florida, the number of outpatient procedures for such acute diagnoses increased by some 50% from 2010 to 2014. in Michigan, the increase was threefold. In New York, tenfold."
“After large-scale clinical trials failed to show stenting reduced the risk of heart attack or death in patients with stable angina, the recommended treatment became medicine and stress-monitoring. New York's Medicaid program started refusing payment for inappropriate stenting. That was around the time that New York diagnoses for acute conditions like unstable angina started to rise, from 0.6% of outpatient procedures in 2010 to 8% in 2014, according to the recent JAMA study.”