American medicine has a tendency to pay for things that are fantastically expensive, but aren’t really what the patient actually needs. I found this blog post about this phenomenon a few years ago:

Which Interventions Can Be Paid For: The Explanatory Power of “Prasad’s Law” (hcrenewal.blogspot.com) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21728864

I had lots of experiences with people who weren’t helped by the money that was spent on their behalf.