In this new paper, Galen Senior Fellow Brian Blase explains that greater transparency in health care pricing will help employers to offer better payment structures for their employees and give employees and other consumers more tools to get better value in health spending. Price transparency should also will give employers the ability to monitor insurer effectiveness and eliminate counterproductive middlemen, and more visibility in pricing will put pressure on high-cost providers to lower prices.
Brian Blase explains more in his latest paper available below:
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