Issue Brief Describes Innovative Health Insurance Benefit Design; Perspective Discusses In-Store Clinics

"Benefit Design Innovations: Implications for Consumer-Directed Health Care," Center for Studying Health System Change: The issue brief examines how innovative health insurance benefit designs that include incentives to promote healthy behavior; use of efficient providers; and that vary by service, condition or income of a person, can improve the effectiveness of higher cost sharing in reducing health care cost growth. The issue brief also discusses challenges for implementation of innovative benefit design

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