Health Care Blog December 19, 2024
This is part 3 of Jeff Goldsmith’s history of managed care. If you missed it read Part 1 & Part 2
Two major changes in health insurance ensued as the US health system entered the 21st century- a strategic shift of health cost risk from providers to patients and the emergence of machine driven managed care.
Insurers Shift Strategy from Sharing Risk with Hospitals and Doctors to Markedly Implicating their “Patients’.
After the 2008 recession, employers and their health plans shifted strategy from putting physicians and hospitals at risk through delegated risk capitation to putting patients at risk through higher patient cost sharing. In the wake of the recession, the number of patients with high deductible health plans nearly quintupled–to...
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