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New Pioneer Institute study calls for insurance carrier incentives, training to allow physicians’ staffs to provide resources on lower-cost/high-value providers.
BOSTON — Calls for insurance carrier incentives, training to allow physicians’ staffs to provide resources on lower-cost/high-value providers.
Consumers in just one Massachusetts county could have saved nearly $22 million in a single year and $116.6 million adjusted for inflation over four years if they switched from using the most expensive providers for 16 shoppable healthcare services to those whose prices were closer to average, according to a new study published by Pioneer Institute.
“With patient navigators and financial incentives from their insurance carriers to utilize lower cost providers, and support from administrative staff at physicians’ offices to help...
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