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The USA spends $8713 dollars per patient per year, more than twice the average of most industrialized countries in the world. The growth of health-care costs outpaced overall GDP growth until recently, inciting fears of mounting government debt, crowding out within the public sector, and increasing cost shifting to individuals. Health-care organizations will have to redesign systems to carefully account for the resources they deploy in the care of patients, deploy them at the right time, and make use of established utilization management strategies to help control costs and usage in order to remain viable and thrive through the transformation of the US health-care system.
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Ticona, L. (2017). Health-Care Reform and Its Impact in Medical Reimbursement. In: Lewandrowski, K., Sluss, P. (eds) Utilization Management in the Clinical Laboratory and Other Ancillary Services. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34199-6_1
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