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>Depends what you mean by providers. I've yet to encounter a facility or clinic in the US that wants to drive up costs, while fraud still is sufficiently uncommon that instances are published. Certainly the physicians are weary of these things dominating what they thought was to be a clinical career and increasingly the docs are accepting salaried positions that insulate them from funding and cost headaches, or blame for that matter.
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I'm all for salaried MD's. I use both. The "entrepreneurs" all push expensive tests, screening, expensive meds, blah, blah and push frequent follow up office visits.
At the VA, the MD's are salaried. They're thorough, careful people but are very low key about screenings and are skeptical about the same meds that the "entrepreneurs" push constantly.
Mark Twain once said "Show me where a man gits his corn pone and I'll tell you what his opinion is."