New Study Indicates Shopping Tools Alone Might Not Lower Medical Spending, Even Though More Patients Want to Know Prices for Clinical Laboratory Tests and Other Procedures

Jun 22, 2016 | Compliance, Legal, and Malpractice, Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology, Laboratory Testing

JAMA study finds that most workers with access to web-based price comparison tools did not use them, nor did they spend less on medical care than other workers Can shopping tools designed to help patients compare providers (including medical laboratories), quality, and prices, make a contribution to reducing the increase in healthcare costs? A new study suggests that such shopping tools make only modest contributions to controlling the cost of care. Published May 3 in the Journal of the...
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