Wasted Medicine

Squandered Health Care Dollars

Billions of dollars are routinely wasted every day by health care providers in the United States — and it’s driving up the cost of care for all of us.

Impact of Our Reporting

More States Hatch Plans to Recycle Drugs Being Wasted in Nursing Homes

by Marshall Allen

December 1, 2017, 8:00 am EST

Senators Introduce Bill to Reduce ‘Colossal and Completely Preventable Waste’

by Marshall Allen

November 1, 2017, 8:00 am EDT

12 stories published since 2017

Unnecessary Medical Care Is More Common Than You Think

by Marshall Allen

February 1, 2018, 5:00 am EST
Want to Lower Health Care Costs? Stop Wasting Our Money.

by Marshall Allen

December 28, 2017, 2:30 pm EST
A Prescription for Reducing Wasted Health Care Spending

by Marshall Allen

December 21, 2017, 5:00 am EST
A Hospital Charged $1,877 to Pierce a 5-Year-Old’s Ears. This Is Why Health Care Costs So Much.

by Marshall Allen

November 28, 2017, 1:30 pm EST
Seven Ways Patients Can Protect Themselves From Outrageous Medical Bills

by Marshall Allen

November 28, 2017, 1:30 pm EST
Drug Companies Make Eyedrops Too Big — And You Pay for the Waste

by Marshall Allen

October 18, 2017, 5:00 am EDT
The Myth of Drug Expiration Dates

by Marshall Allen

July 18, 2017, 5:00 am EDT
How Two Common Medications Became One $455 Million Specialty Pill

by Marshall Allen

June 20, 2017, 7:00 am EDT
America’s Other Drug Problem

by Marshall Allen

April 27, 2017, 5:00 am EDT
What Hospitals Waste

Marshall Allen

March 9, 2017, 9:00 am EST