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Managing patient expectations: helping patients pay their bills
Physicians Practice, 04/20/2012
Doulgeris J – Patients are not likely to see relief from this financial burden, and instead will likely see it intensify. This is because employers, which provide most health insurance as benefits, when given the choice of being the bad guy by reducing employees’ take home pay to offset higher premiums or passing the problem to patients and providers by increasing deductibles, overwhelmingly elect to pass the buck, quite literally.
