A new study sheds light on another significant, and most likely, unnecessary, expense to Medicare.
Not only are doctors conducting tests on elderly patients that they don’t need, but they’re also giving them expensive medications that won’t make much of a difference in the face of terminal illnesses.
The study, published in the journal Medical Care, found that just over half of Medicare patients over the age of 75 with advanced colon cancer were being prescribed three or more drugs to treat the illness.
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