Efforts to steer patients to lower-cost physicians may be based on misleading rankings, study finds

Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 16:07 in Health & Medicine

Increasingly common insurance plans that encourage patients to receive care from physicians who keep medical costs lower are based on unreliable estimates of doctor performance and may not achieve the intended savings, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

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