4sight Health April 2, 2025
We like to say here at 4sight Health that healthcare is an industry no different from any other industry in terms of economic incentives, and that businesses in healthcare behave no differently than businesses in any other industry because of those economic incentives.
But what about consumers? Do healthcare consumers behave the same or differently than consumers in any other industry? According to a new research letter from the JAMA Health Forum, the answer is the same.
Eight health services researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, the Cooper University Healthcare System in Camden, New Jersey, and the Charleston (West Virginia) Area Medical Center compared prostate cancer screening rates of men enrolled in high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) with the...