Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Daniel Schwarze enjoys the profit from his investment in a local radiology clinic. He describes extra income as his “pizza money.”
In some states, it would be illegal.
There are many reasons for spiraling health care costs, but some economists say a big one is pricey, perhaps unnecessary and potentially dangerous tests.
The problem has the potential to worsen, they say, when physicians who prescribe the tests profit from them.
These concerns prompted Congress to pass a federal law barring such arrangements nearly 30 years ago. But physicians are finding increasingly creative ways to get around the law, experts say. Please click here to read the full story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
