UAlbany and Harvard studies: U.S. health care wasting money and performing unnecessary procedures

The U.S. health care system is wasting billions of dollars and putting people at increased risk by performing potentially unnecessary medical procedures, recent reports show. Two colleges -- Harvard Medical School and University at Albany School of Public Health -- tackled those issues in separate studies released this month. Researchers at Harvard analyzed data connected to Medicare, the federal program providing health insurance to elderly people. They found that Medicare spent $1.9 billion in… Reported by bizjournals 11 hours ago.