Value assessments in health care tend to focus on pharmaceuticals rather than services and procedures, despite the outsized contribution of services and procedures to health spending. We use the term ...

The use of low-value procedures, or those that would not be expected to require hospitalization, was linked to more hospital-acquired complications in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. The ...

Low-value procedures have been in the crosshairs for years for the resources they waste. New research further supports the idea that they may also cause more harm than good for the patients they’re ...

Citing the 240 percent increase in the cost of emergency care between 2003 and 2011, researchers have created “top five” lists of emergency department tests, treatments and disposition decisions that ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s recent settlement in the latest chapter of the enforcement proceeding involving Morgan Keegan provides important guideposts on two of the hottest ...

This article is part of a Health Affairs Forefront short series, “Enhancing Value By Evaluating Health Care Services.” The series discusses ways to extend the use of tools for clinical and economic ...

Correct valuations of portfolios are essential if investors are to get information about their exact returns and, on the basis of this, the compensation that their managers should receive. The surveys ...