A novel study has been able to illustrate that the U. S. has to bear the cost of $55 billion upon medical malpractices each year, which if calculated comes to 2.4% of the yearly health care money spending.

The researchers informed that the estimation made by them comprised $45.6 billion, which is recognized as defensive medicine costs, after doctors prescribe needless tests or therapies, so as to avoid legal proceedings.

The researchers at Harvard University and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston said that defensive medicines not only made the healthcare system inefficient, but at the same time it also failed to avert medical blunders from taking place.

In the September's issue of Health Affairs, the study has been published, which is a special issue that tested the medical misconducts and plans to bring improvement in offering added safety to patients and control elevating expenses on the treatments.

The real cost of medical financial burden in the U. S. has yet not been clearly known.

In a journal's release, study author Michelle Mello, a Professor of law and public health at the Harvard School of Public Health said that debating and making plans to tackle unknown medical liabilities is not possible, since to lower the medical costs there needs to be some realistic costs available at hand to devise strategies.