Fred Schulte and Elizabeth Lucas Kaiser Health News, with assistance from researchers at the Mayo Clinic, analyzed available billing data from Medicare and private insurance billing nationwide, and found that spending on urine screens and related genetic tests quadrupled from 2011 to 2014 to an estimated $8.5 billion a year — more than the entire… Continue reading Liquid Gold: Pain Doctors Soak Up Profits By Screening Urine For Drugs in US