Do "Consumer-Directed" Health Plans Bend the Cost Curve Over Time?

Amelia M. Haviland, Matthew D. Eisenberg, Ateev Mehrotra, Peter J. Huckfeldt, Neeraj Sood

NBER Working Paper No. 21031
Issued in March 2015, Revised in July 2015

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This study was funded in part by a grant from the National Institute of Aging (NIA) and the NIH Common Fund for Health Economics (Grant R01-AG043850). Prior grants from the California Health Care Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation enabled the construction of the data source for this study. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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