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Unneeded stents cause patient safety risks and cost billions

There has been intense federal scrutiny on hospitals over the past couple years in light of reports of doctors placing unnecessary stents in patients. Stents are a big business. Medicare alone spent $25.7 billion on cardiac stent procedures from 2004 to 2009. While the wasted spending is alarming, even worse are the medical risks and collateral damage suffered by the victims of the physician fraud.

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