Patient Willingness to Pay for Faster Return to Work or Smaller Incisions.

ABSTRACT: Background: Value-based health care models such as bundled payments and accountable care organizations can penalize health systems and physicians for excess costs leading to low-value care. Health systems can minimize these extra costs by constraining diagnostic (eg, magnetic resonance imaging utilization) or treatment options with debatable necessity in the setting of clinical equipoise. Instead of restricting more expensive treatments, it is plausible that health systems could instead recoup the extra costs of these treatments by charging patients supplementary out-of-pocket charges (cost sharing). The primary aim of this exploratory study was to assess hand surgery patient willingness to pay supplementary out-of-pocket charges for a procedure that theoretically leads to an earlie

SUBMITTER: Alokozai A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8647324 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature