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Study Pegs Health Cost-Shifting at 220 million

By Jon Greenberg on Thursday, October 2, 2003.

In the debate over health care, cost-shifting has become a familiar phrase. Whenever a doctor or hospital charges one patient more in order to make up for what another patient doesn’t pay, cost-shifting takes place.
It has been called a hidden tax on everyone who pays health insurance premiums, but until now, no really knew the size of if.
As part of a larger effort to get a more detailed view of health care in the Granite state, a new report finds that in New Hampshire alone, the cost-shifting tax adds up to over 220 million dollars a year.

New Hampshire Public Radio’s Jon Greenberg has more.

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NH Employers Seek Insurance Premium Solution

By Dan Gorenstein on Thursday, October 2, 2003.

A group of the state’s largest employers are eager to get more detailed information about health care. In fact, they want to rate doctors and hospitals on the quality and cost of their work.

Then, they want to give patients a financial incentive to use those providers with the highest ratings.

It’s an idea that has been tried in only a few other states and health care providers here are worried.

New Hampshire Public Radio’s Dan Gorenstein has more.

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