{"id":12763,"date":"2019-03-05T08:30:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T13:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12763"},"modified":"2019-03-05T08:30:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T13:30:10","slug":"patients-will-shop-around-for-lower-priced-providers-if-rewarded-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12763","title":{"rendered":"Patients will shop around for lower-priced providers if rewarded, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Kelly Gooch for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Financial rewards programs that pay patients if they receive care from lower-priced providers are effective at reducing healthcare spending, suggests a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthaffairs.org\/doi\/full\/10.1377\/hlthaff.2018.05068\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study<\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0<em>Health Affairs<\/em>.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/patients-will-shop-around-for-lower-priced-providers-if-rewarded-study-finds.html\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/money-in-hand.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12764\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/money-in-hand-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/money-in-hand-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/money-in-hand.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Kelly Gooch for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Financial rewards programs that pay patients if they receive care from lower-priced providers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12765,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12763\/revisions\/12765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}