Surgeons Are Incentivized To Perform Unnecessary Surgeries #shorts #healthcare #surgeon #podcast
Providers are incentivized to do more surgeries, so they do more surgeries.
Unnecessary surgeries have so many obvious downsides:
- Potential complications
- Disrupting patients' lives
- Huge amount of cost associated with the procedures
These kinds of misaligned incentives are everywhere in healthcare, and they drive up costs to make health insurance a burden for employers and employees.
