ArticleHealth affairs (Project Hope)2021
Online Advertising Increased New Hampshire Residents' Use Of Provider Price Tool But Not Use Of Lower-Price Providers.
Article in Health affairs (Project Hope), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
- Price Transparency and Patient Empowerment.Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 2026Article
- Exploring the Lack of Transparency in Prescription Drug Costs: Contributors and Avenues for Reform.Journal of general internal medicine · 2025Article
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- Usability of Health Care Price Transparency Data in the United States: Mixed Methods Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- A Continuous Transversus Abdominis Plane Block Decreases Hospital Length of Stay Compared to Thoracic Epidural Analgesia After Open Radical Cystectomy Surgery: A Retrospective Study.Anesthesiology and pain medicine · 2024Article
- Effects of Real-time Prescription Benefit Recommendations on Patient Out-of-Pocket Costs: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA internal medicine · 2022Article
- How Should Cost-Informed Goals of Care Decisions Be Facilitated at Life's End?AMA journal of ethics · 2022Article
- Paying patients to use lower-priced providers.Health services research · 2022Article
- Patterns of Use of a Price Transparency Tool for Childbirth Among Pregnant Individuals With Commercial Insurance.JAMA network open · 2021Article
- Price Transparency in United States' Health Care: A Narrative Policy Review of the Current State and Way Forward.Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financingReview
- Estimating the Impact of New Health Price Transparency Policies.Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financingArticle
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Abstract
Insurers and policy makers have created health care price transparency websites to facilitate price shopping and reduce spending. However, price transparency tools to date have been plagued by low use. It is unclear whether this low use reflects a lack of interest or a lack of awareness. We launched a large online advertising campaign to increase consumers' awareness about insurer-specific negotiated price information available on New Hampshire's public price transparency website. Our campaign led to a more than 600 percent increase in visits to the website. However, in our analysis of health plan claims, this increased use of the website did not translate to increased use of lower-price providers. Our findings imply that the limited success to date of price transparency tools in reducing health care spending is driven by structural factors that limit consumers' ability to use health care price information as opposed to only a lack of awareness about price transparency tools.
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