A Primer on Competitive Strategies for Containing Health Care Costs
HRD-82-92
Published: Sep 24, 1982. Publicly Released: Sep 24, 1982.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO analyzed the procompetition strategies for health care cost containment, focusing on a description of their major features, their underlying assumptions, and the bases upon which their impact on health care costs have been estimated.
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Administrative costsCompetitionCost sharing (finance)Health care cost controlHealth insuranceHealth maintenance organizationsHospitalsConsumersHealth careDelivery systems