Effect of a price transparency intervention in the electronic health record on clinician ordering of inpatient laboratory tests

Effect of a price transparency intervention in the electronic health record on clinician ordering of inpatient laboratory tests

Collection:
Health Policy and Services Research
Series Title(s):
Research brief (Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics)
Author(s):
Sedrak, Mina S., author
Myers, Jennifer S., author
Small, Dylan S., author
Nachamkin, Irving, author
Ziembar, Justin B., author
Murray, Dana, author
Kurtzman, Gregory W., author
Zhu, Jingsan, author
Wang, Wenli, author
Mincarelli, Deborah, author
Danoski, Daniel, author
Wells, Brian P., author
Berns, Jeffrey S., author
Brennan, Patrick J., author
Hanson, C. William, author
Dine, Jessica, author
Patel, Mitesh S., author
Contributor(s):
Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, issuing body.
Publication:
Philadelphia, PA : Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, 2017
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Clinical Laboratory Techniques -- economics
Disclosure
Practice Patterns, Physicians' -- statistics & numerical data
Unnecessary Procedures -- economics
United States
Genre(s):
Technical Report
Abstract:
Despite the promise of price transparency, clinicians did not change their ordering of inpatient lab tests when Medicare allowable fees were displayed in the electronic health record at the time of order entry.
Copyright:
Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
Extent:
1 online resource (1 PDF file (2 pages))
Illustrations:
Illustrations
NLM Unique ID:
101710152 (See catalog record)
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101710152