Friday, December 9, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
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Robinson
explains that the German experience demonstrates that a redesign of consumer cost sharing that can achieve savings for payers without creating onerous financial barriers for patients.
Savings would be achieved by shifting cost sharing from coinsurance to “low copayments for affordable products and high copayments for products bearing higher prices without offering superior performance,” Robinson finds.
Today on Forefront, LaCinda Jones and coauthors indicate that elder mistreatment, also referred to as elder abuse, is a major public health problem that threatens the well-being of older adults and has been neglected and underfunded.
Earlier this week, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Xaiver Becerra and coauthors wrote an article about the nation's behavioral health crisis and the HHS roadmap to address it.
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