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Tiered coverage, SaveOn plans can boost cost-conscious care

  December 31, 2011

Over time, the most important way to bring down costs in health care will be for the cost of individual medical services to figure more prominently in the decisions that doctors and patients make about which services to seek. That transformation is already beginning to occur in Massachusetts. Despite the inevitable turmoil for insurers, providers, and patients alike, the Commonwealth’s regulators and policymakers should let the change play out.

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