A Medicare tool that allows users to compare the quality of hospitals has given insurers a bargaining chip to negotiate lower medical prices, researchers have found, but the effects in the workers’ compensation space might be muted.
Medicare’s “Hospital Compare” website, launched in 2005, allows users to gather information, such as patient satisfaction, whether they charge more for certain procedures and whether they perform unnecessary medical resonance imaging on patients with lower back pain. According to a study published in the January edition of the journal ...
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