Some of this spending, he said, was due to unnecessary procedures.

The key was the elimination of a number of unnecessary procedures.

We have to be a bit cautious and not put women through an unnecessary procedure.

The same is true for unnecessary procedures, a tragedy I witness on a regular basis.

Meanwhile, the doctors in the networks have financial incentives to avoid unnecessary medical procedures.

Q. You said a few minutes ago that $40 billion is wasted in unnecessary medical procedures.

Under this system, doctors who bill for unnecessary procedures wind up hurting their colleagues.

For example, they said, whites might undergo more unnecessary procedures.

And, he said, the magazine is careful never to advocate unnecessary procedures.

More unnecessary procedures will be done at a lower fee.