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Are Health Care Services Shoppable? Evidence from the Consumption of Lower-Limb MRI Scans
National Bureau of Economic Research [NBER]; purchase required for full document July 30, 2018
"Fewer than 1 percent of individuals used a price transparency tool to search for the price of their services in advance of care. The choice of provider is such that, on average, individuals bypassed 6 lower-priced providers between their home and the location where they received their scan.... The influence of referring physicians is dramatically greater than the effect of patient cost-sharing."
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