Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

Industry Note:

Patients' Demands Drive Clinicians' Excessive Prescribing

A new study finds that clinicians’ perceptions about patients’ wants versus their actual needs is the primary reason for antibiotic overprescribing. > Context: The HHS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) funded a recent study in Family Practice on the reasons clinicians continue to prescribe antibiotics — especially when they aren’t medically necessary. After interviewing 25 providers in a [...]
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