Reframing the unaffordability debate: patient responsibility for physician care.

CONCLUSIONS: Average increases in patient obligations for outpatient visits in recent years have been fairly moderate, and multiple sources of survey data suggest that consumers' concerns about overall affordability are decreasing. The high cost of healthcare continues to pose challenges, both at the individual level and for society as a whole. Nevertheless, it is important that potential strategies to improve affordability are informed by trends in patient obligations. PMID: 29182354 [PubMed - in process]

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Source: The American Journal of Managed Care - November 1, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Hempstead K, Gray J, Zink A Tags: Am J Manag Care Source Type: research