Background on Waste and Fraud

Module 6, the last of the class!, covers waste and fraud in healthcare. We’ll start this module with a general discussion of waste and its sources, based on Shrank, Rogstad, and Parekh (2019). We’ll discuss sources of waste more directly next class, and focus specifically on fraud and overuse in the last two classes of this module.

References

Shrank, William H., Teresa L. Rogstad, and Natasha Parekh. 2019. “Waste in the US Health Care System: Estimated Costs and Potential for Savings.” JAMA 322 (15): 1501–9. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2019.13978.