Detailed Instructions: Generate an explanation for the given claim using the provided supporting material from the paragraph. Please consider the following points while generating an output. 1) The claim will always have supporting proof in the paragraph, and the paragraph will have a clear point of view supporting the claim. 2) There can be instances where direct correlation to the claim is not available. Make use of the sentences in the paragraph to provide a corresponding output supporting the claim. 3) The explanation should be at least one and at most twelve sentences long.
Problem:Paragraph: "The story deal with cost very early in the story: ""You have one kind of operation that could cost $20,000 and another that could cost $80,000 and there's not good evidence the expensive one is being used appropriately in the majority of cases"" Add to that the expense for patients whose problems after surgery send them back to the hospital or to a nursing home and ""that's not a trivial amount of money"" for Medicare The cost to Medicare, just for the hospital charges for the three types of back surgery reviewed is about $1.65 billion a year, according to the researchers. The story clearly stated, ""The study didn't address how successful the various types of surgeries were at relieving pain."" Good job using absolute risk data: Nice job emphasizing what's known and what's not known. Excerpts:" Claim: Study: Riskier surgeries for back pain raise costs
Solution:
Thorough report, including a glance at how marketing and financial conflict of interest may have influenced the rise in costly, complex surgeries. The story ends with an important quote from a spine surgeon: "Too much fusion surgery is done in this country and often for inappropriate reasons" and patients "should not hesitate to get a second opinion."