Penalizing Physicians for Low‐Value Care in Hospital Medicine: A Randomized Survey

Low‐value services—those for which there is little to no benefit, little benefit relative to cost, or outsized potential harm compared with benefit—persist widely despite professional consensus, guidelines, and national campaigns to reduce them. As policy makers consider financially penalizing physicians to deter low‐value services, physician support for such penalties remains unknown. We conducted a randomized survey experiment among physicians...