Effects of Cost Sharing on Use of Medical Services and Health
Summarizes the major findings of the RAND Health Insurance Experiment. It concludes that cost sharing reduced care but had little effect on health. In the years following the release of those data, conventional health insurance plans have increased front-end cost sharing to restrain spending on health care.
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- Copyright: Greenbranch Publishing
- Availability: Web-Only
- Pages: 5
- Document Number: RP-1114
- Year: 1992
- Series: Reprints
Originally published in: Journal of Medical Practice Management, v. 8, Summer 1992, pp. 317-321.
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