CSPAN3 Politics Public Policy Today September 15, 2014
One thing is with all of the data that is now available for research, what we are seeing is and what is being seen by insurers, in fact that higher prices for the services does not indicate better outcomes. They are rebuilding or fixing knees and the more they do it, the more familiar with the better the out come and because they do of them. And often the price of that particular procedure is lower than it is for the guy who does one a week. If they do or two or three a day versus one a month, what we are seeing in terms of the outcomes is that often times the lower cost procedure is really pr...