Association between availability of a price transparency tool and outpatient spending

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 315, Issue 17, 2016, Pages 1874-1881

  Desai, Sunita ^a   Hatfield, Laura A ^a   Hicks, Andrew L ^a   Chernew, Michael E ^a   Mehrotra, Ateev ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPLOYEE; EMPLOYER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; MALE; MEDICAL SERVICE; PRICE TRANSPARENCY TOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSUMER; COST; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH INSURANCE; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; OUTPATIENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; COST SHARING; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISCLOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH BENEFIT PLANS, EMPLOYEE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84971659159     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2016.4288     Document Type: Article

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