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Paying Patients To Take Drugs, Or Helping Them Make An Informed Choice
Wendy Lynch Posted 11/29/11 on the HCMS Group Blog It’s hard to imagine something scarier than a heart attack: crushing pain, combined with the realization that the organ you rely on to beat every...
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High-Cost Hospitals: Because Patients are Sicker? Think Again.
Wendy Lynch, Ian Beren, Justin Shaneman and Nathan Kleinman Posted 12/30/11 on the HCMS Blog It’s not surprising news that inpatient healthcare costs vary from hospital to hospital; large differences...
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Are Consumers Ready To Transform Health Care? If Not Now, When?
Wendy Lynch Posted 1/26/12 on the Altarum Institute’s Health Policy Forum There is a massive untapped resource in health care: consumers. Like a sleeping giant, unaware of its size and power, consumers...
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Activating Consumers with Financial Control: Lessons from Health Savings...
Wendy Lynch Posted 3/6/12 on the Altarum Institute Health Policy Forum Health Savings Accounts are growing up. No longer an oddity, millions of families have accounts funded by tens of thousands of...
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What Makes a Person Expensive in Healthcare? Not What Most People Think.
Wendy Lynch Posted 4/4/12 on the HCMS Blog A question from the audience last month: “We spend the most in healthcare on a small portion of really sick people. You don’t expect them to shop for care...
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More Information Is Not Always Better: Pulling Consumers Into Active Choices...
Wendy Lynch Posted 5/01/12 on the Altarum Institute’s Health Policy Forum “I’m thinking of getting a full-body CT scan,” Jane said. “What do you think?” Here was a healthy, active 72-year-old with no...
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