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reference pricing
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When reporting on efforts to reduce drug prices, be skeptical and follow the money
The Trump administration has been talking tough on drug prices for many months and, of course, pharmaceutical companies and other…
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Reference pricing for ‘shoppable’ health care services steers consumers to low-cost providers
When Safeway, a grocery store chain, introduced reference pricing for the most commonly used clinical laboratory tests, spending on those…
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High interest in reference pricing: Who knew? Uwe Reinhardt for one
Last summer, Uwe E. Reinhardt, a health policy expert and economics professor at Princeton (and keynote speaker at Health Journalism…
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Report shows reference pricing could save employers $9.4 billion
If all employers adopted reference pricing for certain health care services, the potential total savings could reach $9.4 billion, according…
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Report shows how reference pricing brings down costs
One issued we pursued during the AHCJ webcast last month (The cost of health care: Is transparency possible?) is whether…