Erschienen in:
01.11.2013 | Comment
Information Transparency for Health Care Consumers: Clear, but Effective?
verfasst von:
J. Michael McWilliams, MD, PhD
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 11/2013
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Excerpt
Health care information reported to the public could be used by a variety of stakeholders, but a primary purpose of transparency initiatives is to elicit a consumer (i.e., patient) response that is sufficiently strong to trigger market-based solutions to our health care problems. The idea is certainly attractive. Provide patients with price and quality information on a variety of health plans, providers, and services. Give them skin in the game in the form of high deductibles or fixed vouchers so they have financial incentives to choose high-value options. And the rest will follow—healthy competition, better quality, and lower costs. …