Employers making use of price, quality data.
In efforts they hope will reduce costs, healthcare purchasers are becoming more active in helping beneficiaries choose providers. Such efforts include increased use of widely available price and quality data. Quaker Oats, for example, publishes hospital price guides, while Navistar International and Hershey Foods are developing their own provider networks.
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