[leftyted]

I don't know if it's the right incentivization model but there's a difference between diagnosis + cure vs. treating symptoms.

Painkillers treat symptoms but they don't cure anything.

[bduerst]

You can't cure what you don't know exists, but you can cure that admitting abdominal pain with painkillers and still get paid (with that model).

The point is that diagnostics are expensive, and if you're not going to be reimbursed to run them, you're going to take the risk to find the cause. What's left is curing the symptoms.