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UHC: $32B Wasted in Treating Conditions in ED That Could Be Seen in Primary Care Offices

Published on Tue Oct 15, 2019

10 specific diagnoses drove the overuse of ED services. Your ED is likely to see patients with bronchitis, headaches, and nausea frequently, but one insurer thinks those patients would save the healthcare system a lot of money if they visited primary care physicians instead of emergency departments. That’s the word from a new analysis by UnitedHealth Group, which calculated that [...]
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