title: Looking beyond cost containment.
abstract: Legislators, third parties, physicians, and patients alike have spent countless hours in recent years searching for a way to contain rising medical costs. Here we look at how controlling overutilization of services may lead to cost containment.
authors.forename: T W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Reinke
authors.forename: D H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Glusman
authors.forename: W C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Garrow
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control / Q000639:trends; D005251:Fees, Medical / Q000639:trends*; D006296:Health Services / Q000191:economics*; D006300:Health Services Misuse / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States