{"id":8423,"date":"2017-10-27T05:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T09:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8423"},"modified":"2017-10-26T14:00:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T18:00:31","slug":"physicians-say-its-growing-harder-to-tell-patients-to-avoid-low-value-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8423","title":{"rendered":"Physicians say it&#8217;s growing harder to tell patients to avoid low-value care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Emily Rappleye for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Although the majority of physicians say they are comfortable telling patients why certain tests and procedures are not worth the cost or could be avoided, they feel these discussions are increasingly difficult to have, according to a survey published in\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/content.healthaffairs.org\/content\/early\/2017\/10\/18\/hlthaff.2017.0945\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Health Affairs<\/a><\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/white-papers\/physicians-say-it-s-growing-harder-to-tell-patients-to-avoid-low-value-care.html\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Medical-exam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7838\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Medical-exam-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Medical-exam-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Medical-exam.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Emily Rappleye for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Although the majority of physicians say they are comfortable telling patients why certain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8424,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423\/revisions\/8424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}