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Consumers or Patients: The Role of Individuals vs. Employers in Health Care Spending Choices
EBRI [Employee Benefit Research Institute] Link to more items from this source
[Opinion]
Jan. 17, 2020

"When people are in need of health care, it's because they are sick. And anyone who has ever been sick knows that the highest priority tends to be getting well, not shopping around for value-based services.... [One study] concluded that employer intervention should be a consideration and that employers could cut their drug costs nearly in half simply by shifting patients to physician office settings or negotiating site-neutral pricing for medicines."  MORE >>

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