The payoff from cutting back on these costly treatments can be huge.

This can keep your health from getting worse and requiring more costly treatment.

To do so leads to more complex, costly treatment in the future.

But the debate over the costly new treatments continues.

They often postpone seeing a doctor until a problem is serious, even life-threatening, and requires costly treatment.

However, early intervention can prevent much greater need later on and avoid far more costly medical treatment in future.

Getting physical therapy early on can result in faster recovery and prevent more costly treatment later.

They usually turn to the technique only after years of costly - and frequently uninsured - treatment with other methods.

Without the pump technology, the boy would have to receive more costly treatment in a hospital.

"The least costly treatment for any illness is lethal medication," he added.