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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Sep 5.
Published in final edited form as: Health Aff (Millwood). 2017 Oct 1;36(10):1701–1704. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2017.0385

EXHIBIT 1. Use and cost of low-value services in Virginia in 2014, by quartiles of cost.

EXHIBIT 1

SOURCE Authors’ analysis of data for 2014 from the Virginia All Payer Claims Database. NOTES “Low-value services” refers to forty-four specific health services in specific clinical settings from which the patient is expected to receive no net benefit. The costs for the quartiles of low-value services are less than $100 per very-low-cost service, $100–$538 per low-cost service, $539–$1,315 per high-cost service, and more than $1,315 per very-high-cost service. Costs are the average (mean) amount of money per service paid to a health care provider across all payers, including patients’ out-of-pocket spending, multiplied by the frequency of that service.