The use of reference pricing by health insurers and employee health benefit plans stands high on the policy and regulatory agenda because it is gaining popularity, particularly now that federal ...

Reference pricing — or capping payment for a specific healthcare service — offers only modest potential savings for health plans and purchasers looking to contain costs, according to an analysis ...

Reference-based pricing entered the conversation a few years ago as a solution and response to unsustainable healthcare price increases, and the model is still gaining traction among self-funded ...

Reference pricing has been touted as a way to create provider competition in healthcare, but a recent Federal Trade Commission article argued this isn't the case. Reference pricing is a relatively new ...

Insurers and employers take note: A new study has found that reference pricing is associated with “significant” changes in drug selection and spending for patients covered by employer-based insurance.

A reference pricing initiative was linked to more prescription fills of lowest-priced drugs and a decreased average price per prescription, but higher rates of copayments by patients, a new study ...

A study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, found that patients who have access to both the prices charged by a testing laboratory as well as reference pricing, they choose lower ...

(Reuters Health) - When employers and insurers use reference pricing for diagnostic tests, the average price paid for those tests dips by almost a third, according to a new U.S. study. Under reference ...

On October 10, 2014, the Departments of Labor, Treasury, and Health and Human Services issued a frequently asked question (FAQ) regarding the use of reference-based pricing in non-grandfathered large ...

With health care costs continuing to rise faster than the rate of inflation — and the rate of employee wage increases — one solution has been getting increasing buzz in the industry: reference-based ...