San Luis Valley (Colo.) Health, a self-insured health system covering 725 employees and their dependents, is conducting a two-year experiment in value-based insurance, the premise of which is that a mix of financial carrots and sticks can steer patients toward services that will help them and away from unnecessary ones.
In healthcare experiment, patients pay more for 'bad' medicine
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