As much as 5 percent of health care spending in Medicare is “potentially preventable,” according to a new Commonwealth Fund–supported study led by Jose F. Figueroa, M.D., and Ashish K. Jha, M.D., in Annals of Internal Medicine. And a relatively small group of high-cost patients, many of whom are frail and elderly, account for most of it.
How Much Medicare Spending Is Potentially Preventable?
