Patient Cost-Sharing and Healthcare Spending Growth
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Patient cost-sharing and healthcare spending growth.
In this paper, we explore the role patient incentives play in slowing healthcare spending growth. Evidence suggests that while patients do indeed respond to financial incentives, cost-sharing does not uniformly improve value; rather, cost-sharing provisions must be deliberately structured and targeted to reduce care of low marginal value. Other mechanisms may be helpful in targeting particular ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Economic Perspectives
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0895-3309
DOI: 10.1257/jep.25.2.47