USE OF REFERENCE PRICING by Safeway to lower the cost of clinical laboratory tests was the subject of a study published by JAMA Internal Medicine in July. In a special issue, THE DARK REPORT analyzed the study, which showed that reference-based pricing helped slash the cost of clinical laboratory tests by 32% in just 24 […]
- Cost Control Update
How Reference Pricing Encourages Patients to Help Cut Cost of Care
CalPERS uses reference pricing to contain costs for hip and knee surgery, also for common procedures
- By Joseph Burns
- > From the Volume XXIII No. 14 - October 17, 2016 Issue
