Becker's Healthcare October 7, 2019
Through price transparency, self-insured employers are trying to boost contracting efficiency between their insurance carriers and healthcare providers, according to a Health Affairs blog.
The blog post was written by Ge Bai, PhD, an associate professor of accounting at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and associate professor of health policy and management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Chapin White, PhD, an adjunct researcher at the RAND Corp.; and Gloria Sachdev, PharmD, president and CEO of the Employers’ Forum of Indiana, an employer-led multistakeholder coalition.
In the blog, the authors cite various examples of price transparency studies used by self-insured employers to guage contracting inefficiencies.
A RAND Corp. study done in collaboration with the Employers’ Forum of...
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