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Waste in the healthcare system reaches hundreds of billions

The U.S. healthcare system wastes some $760 billion to $935 billion dollars each year, says a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and between $27.2 billion and $78.2 billion of that total is the result of failures in care coordination.

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