🎤: Aditi Sen on the Mirage of Employer Health Care Price Negotiation

In their article in the September issue of Health Affairs, Aditi Sen and colleagues from the Health Care Cost Institute compare prices for common services in self-insured plans with those prices in fully insured plans.

The authors determine that for most services, prices were moderately higher in self-insured plans than in fully insured plans.

They note that "relying on market-based negotiations and incentives between self-insured employers and providers is unlikely to be effective at lowering health care prices."

Sen and colleagues suggest that these findings could encourage policy efforts to lower prices for those who have employer-sponsored insurance.

For more on this paper's findings, check out today's episode of A Health Podyssey featuring Aditi Sen and Health Affairs' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil.

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