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Will Payment Reform Limit Patient Choice?
Hospital execs tell the Boston Globe that payment reform will inevitably lead to patients having fewer options when it comes to choosing specialists and hospitals. The warnings — that cutting costs will surely lead to restrictions on patients — are ominous:
“You can’t reap these savings without limiting patients’ choices in some way,’’ said Paul Levy, chief executive of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. “It’s a huge issue, it’s huge.’’ Dr. James Mongan, president of Partners HealthCare, a Beth Israel Deaconess competitor, agreed that it wouldn’t “work without some restriction on choice.’’
This program aired on October 11, 2009. The audio for this program is not available.