Improving the value of health care
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Improving the value of health care
（Health care issues, costs and access series）
Nova Science Publishers, c2010
- : hardcover
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Includes index
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Description
The rising cost of health care represents the nation's single most important long-term fiscal challenge. This book explores whether increased transparency about prices for specific health care services and pharmaceuticals would help to temper the rapid growth in costs. The answer is unclear because evidence can be gathered to support either side of the issue. Some observers believe that if individuals know the prices of health care services, they are more likely to seek out less expensive providers or treatments and to question how effective the care they are purchasing is likely to be. However, several factors may limit the effectiveness of this type of transparency in cutting health care expenditures. This book examines such potentially substantial inefficiencies in health care and then discusses a few pathways to reducing them.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Increasing the Value of Federal Spending on Health Care before the Committee on Budget U.S. House of Representatives, July 16, 2008
- Increasing Transparency in the Pricing of Health Care Services and Pharmaceuticals
- Health Care Spending: Context and Policy
- Getting Better Value in Health Care: Hearing before the Committee on the Budget House of Representatives
- Index.
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