{"id":1030,"date":"2012-11-20T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2013-01-22T18:04:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T18:04:58","slug":"costly-repeat-medical-testing-common-for-medicare-patients-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1030","title":{"rendered":"Costly, Repeat Medical Testing Common for Medicare Patients: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 19, 2012 <strong>By Steven Reinberg\u00a0 <\/strong><em>HealthDay Reporter\u00a0 <\/em>MONDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Many Medicare patients undergo some kind of repeat medical testing, a new study finds. But it&#8217;s unclear whether giving the same test twice protects recipients&#8217; health or just piles on costs to an already overburdened system.\u00a0 &#8220;There is a substantial amount of retesting,&#8221; said study co-author Kevin Hayes, a policy analyst at the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission in Washington, D.C. &#8220;There are also limited practice guidelines to help physicians understand when it&#8217;s a good idea to repeat a test and when it&#8217;s not.&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/health.usnews.com\/health-news\/news\/articles\/2012\/11\/19\/costly-repeat-medical-testing-common-for-medicare-patients-study\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 19, 2012 By Steven Reinberg\u00a0 HealthDay Reporter\u00a0 MONDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Many Medicare patients undergo some kind of repeat medical testing, a new study finds. But it&#8217;s <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1030\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[493,168,170,131,446],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-newsroom","tag-heart-disease","tag-medical-overtreatment","tag-medical-screening","tag-medicare","tag-overtreatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1106,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/1106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}