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- Title
Which Price Should Be Transparent and Why?
- Authors
Glied, Sherry; Kim, Grace
- Abstract
Prices private insurers negotiate with health care organizations and clinicians have historically been confidential. Since the early 2000s, privately insured patients have faced increasing out-of-pocket costs and demanded more information about variability in negotiated prices, some of which has slowly become available. This article argues that fragmentation in US health care delivery streams and shortcomings in formal quality measures mean that the value of making prices transparent is in its usefulness as a tool for policymakers and regulators rather than for patients.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MEDICAL care cost laws; INSURANCE companies; HEALTH policy; MEDICAL quality control; MEDICAL care; HEALTH insurance; USER charges; CONSUMER activism; POLICY sciences; MEDICAL societies; GOAL (Psychology)
- Publication
AMA Journal of Ethics, 2022, Vol 24, Issue 11, p1075
- ISSN
2376-6980
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/amajethics.2022.1075