1.   Among them are limiting their patients to doctors and other health providers with whom the health plan has contracted and closely monitoring care to reduce unnecessary treatment.

2.   And some unscrupulous chiropractors run up bills by ordering worthless or unneeded diagnostic tests or by encouraging patients to return repeatedly for unnecessary treatments.

3.   As there was no change in overall death rates, the researchers concluded that any fall in cancer deaths was being canceled out by deaths from the unnecessary treatments.

4.   Avoiding unnecessary treatment eliminates the risk of adverse side effects and development of resistant microbes.

5.   But in the effort to avoid unnecessary antibiotic treatment, some patients may end up undertreated, allowing an infection to flourish unchecked until it is too late.

6.   Ellwood says such a system should reap big savings in the Medicare health insurance program as competition reduces the amount of unnecessary treatment provided to the elderly.

7.   Examples of medically unnecessary treatments included X-raying both knees of a patient who had problems in only one knee, or billing for two overlapping tests.

8.   False positives, meanwhile, can lead to unnecessary treatment.

9.   In addition, you are more likely to have unnecessary treatment for a condition that will disappear on its own.

10.   Medically, the name refers to people who wander from one hospital to the next, telling tall stories about their illnesses and seeking unnecessary treatment.