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JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE
Volume 27, Issue 11, Pages 1544-1547Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-012-2050-4
Keywords
health-care costs; health-care value; restaurant food labeling; asymmetric paternalism; nudges
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United States health expenditures continue to escalate at unsustainable rates. A recent movement around increasing price transparency has been suggested as a way of reducing the rate of increase in expenditures, with legislative efforts taking place at both the state and federal level. While this seems on the surface like a good idea, simply providing information on prices to physicians, particularly trainees, may not achieve the type of large changes in practice patterns that proponents expect. The manner in which price transparency is implemented will likely play a significant role in its effectiveness as an intervention. In this article, the authors review efforts of transparency and default options from other contexts and leverage insights from behavioral economics to provide recommendations for increasing the likelihood that price transparency will lead to physicians weighing the relative value of interventions.
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