"The idea is that if you give consumers good information about prices—and make sure they have 'skin in the game' through high deductibles or co-pays—they will choose lower-priced providers and services, and market forces will drive spending and prices down," said Ateev Mehrotra, a health care economist and physician in the HMS Department of Health Care Policy. Some see price shopping for health care as a prudent idea , yet few actually do it even when given the means to , according to the results of two separate studies led by researchers at Harvard Medical School .
Some see price shopping for health care as a prudent idea , yet few actually do it even when given the means to , according to the results of two separate studies led by researchers at Harvard Medical School .