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What's driving spending differences in medical groups and what might that mean for health policy.
- Source :
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Health Services Research . Dec2023, Vol. 58 Issue 6, p1161-1163. 3p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Over the past 20 years, much attention has been paid to health care prices and the role they play in driving high health care spending in the US.[1] This is in no small part due to the 2003 paper by Anderson et al. entitled "It's the Prices, Stupid: Why the United States is So Different from Other Countries",[2] and the follow-up paper in 2019 entitled "It's Still The Prices, Stupid: Why The US Spends So Much On Health Care, And A Tribute To Uwe Reinhardt".[3] In this issue, Mehrotra et al.[4] take on the issue of how differences in prices I at the medical group level i may contribute to differences in spending using data for the non-elderly population commercially insured by the United Health Group. With relatively limited cost sharing,[11] patients may be using other criteria to make decisions about whether and where to get inpatient and specialty care. [Extracted from the article]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00179124
- Volume :
- 58
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Health Services Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 173397441
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.14231