Tests and procedures, small and large, loomed.
Competition is the spur that drives unnecessary tests and procedures.
The $7 also applies to tests and procedures, like pathology and imaging.
It cited opinions from prominent doctors that additional tests and procedures should have been performed.
Both Cigna and Oxford said that specialists had been ordering more tests and procedures.
After three years of miscarriages, tests and procedures, I'd become weary of odds and of failures.
"Her entire life is needles, blood tests and procedures," Hughes says.
Fear of possible claims leads medical professionals to squander billions in unnecessary tests and procedures.
In addition, necessary tests and procedures have been performed, most of them at the same facility on the same day.
They got more frequent tests and procedures, more visits with specialists, and more frequent admission to hospitals.
Fears of malpractice lawsuits prompt many doctors to practice "defensive medicine," ordering more tests and procedures than they otherwise would.
