Consumer group agrees with private health peak body that unnecessary treatment is a waste of health money
The performance of individual surgeons, including adverse events, should be made public to expose hazardous and unnecessary medical treatment, and combat wasteful health spending, the CEO of the Consumers Health Forum says.
Leanne Wells was responding to a pre-budget submission by Private Healthcare Australia [PHA] that described planned, elective caesarean sections performed before 39 weeks’ gestation as “harmful care for which [Medicare] benefits should not be paid”. The submission also argues private insurers should not be paying for them, and described high rates of gastroscopies and colonoscopies as similarly “inappropriate” and “an example of wasteful care, which may also be harmful if adverse events occur as a result of the intervention”.
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