Medicare Spending Disparities Don't Improve Outcomes

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Channel: Mayo Clinic · 2009 · News & Politics

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Raymond Gibbons, M.D., a Mayo Clinic cardiologist and former president of the American Heart Association, describes the vast differences in Medicare spending per beneficiary, and how some local areas spend up to twice the national average while other areas in the same state spend far less while getting patient health outcomes that are just as good.

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