| 1. | The company was founded in 1997 to address overutilization.
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| 2. | Similarly, overutilization is evidenced in the promotion of CT scans for private offices.
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| 3. | Effects of overutilization on patients can include unnecessary radiation exposure and false positive results.
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| 4. | Copayments were introduced in the 1980s in an attempt to prevent overutilization and control costs.
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| 5. | A health care service is sometimes not cost efficient due to either overutilization or underutilization.
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| 6. | Overutilization, or overuse, occurs when the value of health care is diluted with wasted resources.
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| 7. | They suggest that such arrangements may encourage overutilization of services, in turn driving up health care costs.
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| 8. | However, frequent ED users make up a small portion of those contributing to overutilization and are often insured.
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| 9. | The current system is oriented towards fee for service, punishing lower utilization and rewarding overutilization through increased revenue.
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| 10. | As pointed out in one case, it is difficult to identify this type of overutilization " fraud ".
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