Top Drivers of Health Care Costs 2010 October 21, 2009
Posted by George Van Antwerp in Books / Articles, Healthcare, Managed Care, PBM / Pharmacy, Research.trackback
A recent Managed Healthcare Executive article (Oct 2009) provides survey data from 650 people at health plans, PBMs, disease management companies, and hospitals. [As a side note, I was really surprised at how far off this group's estimates were relative to the impact of prescription costs...which are generally in the 10-12% of total healthcare costs.]
Another survey I found interesting in the article was why health plans are perceived as dishonest.
Another part of the survey had 7.8% of people saying that patients (consumers) are less interested in health and that the primary reasons for lack of engagement were:
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