|Articles|January 22, 2004

For-profit and not-for-profit health plans similar in allowing high-cost procedures

The rate of use of high-cost operative procedures is not lower among Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in for-profit health plans than among those enrolled in not-for-profit health plans, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine (2004; 350:143-150).

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