Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
now with IBM Watson Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
JAMA. 2021 Apr 27;325(16):1674-1676. doi: 10.1001/jama.2021.0720.
In the context of concerns about the appropriateness and costs to insurers and patients of laboratory testing, this study uses data from the IBM MarketScan Commercial Claims and Encounters Database to examine out-of-network laboratory test spending, utilization, and prices in the US in 2008-2016.
在人们对实验室检测对保险公司和患者的适宜性和成本表示担忧的背景下,本研究使用了 IBM MarketScan 商业索赔和就诊数据库中的数据,以考察 2008-2016 年美国的网络外实验室检测支出、利用情况和价格。