Bryan E. Dowd, PhD

Their study found cost nudges had minimal effect on clinic selection, as 85% already chose lower-cost tiers, suggesting tiered benefit design works.

Based on their findings, the 2 experts suggested that tiered benefit design may already strongly influence consumer choices.

Findings from a randomized controlled trial on reducing information barriers for consumers selecting primary care clinics in a tiered network design demonstrate limited marginal effect of the intervention.

Use of voluntary alignment attribution by Next Generation Accountable Care Organization (ACO) participants was limited. The authors highlight the reasons and describe organizational use cases via a mixed-methods approach.

The authors discuss multiple challenges to the production of policy-relevant results from evaluation of Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs).

This study of claims among adults covered by employer-sponsored plans revealed substantial variations in out-of-network cost-sharing payments. The growth of cost sharing for nonemergent hospitalizations is concerning.

Patient satisfaction does not seem to be influenced by the intensity of medical resource use by their physicians.