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The price-cost disconnect in healthcare: Negative consequences and recommended remedies

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Payers and providers have been forced to scrutinise costs more over the last five to ten years of vigorous healthcare reform; however, this increased attention to costs has not been reflected in pricing, and a price-cost disconnect leads to many deleterious consequences. This paper outlines the negative results of this disconnect and recommends several ways in which this gap can be corrected to create a more cost-efficient healthcare economy, one of the goals of the so-called Triple Aim of healthcare reform.

Keywords: bundled payments; consumer-driven cost efficiencies; cost accounting; preservation of margins; price-cost disconnect; provider management; value-based reimbursement

Document Type: Research Article

Publication date: 01 June 2016

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