Does price transparency legislation allow the uninsured to shop for care?

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 110-114

  Farrell, Kate Stockwell ^a   Finocchio, Leonard J ^b   Trivedi, Amal N ^c   Mehrotra, Ateev ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b California HealthCare Foundation   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Hospital costs; Legislation; Out of pocket costs; Shopping; Transparency; Uninsured

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL BILLING; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HYSTERECTOMY; LAW; MEDICARE; REIMBURSEMENT; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH, REIMBURSEMENT; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MEDICARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77951144599     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-009-1176-5     Document Type: Article

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