Shopping online for health care info.
Assistant research professor Mila Kofman of Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute was quoted in an Associated Press story about the increasing numbers of hospital patients and health care consumers who use the web to research medical costs and healthcare quality.
Noting that hospitals rarely put the actual charges that insurers pay on their web sites, Kofman is quoted as saying: “There is a certain level of faith that we have to put in other experts to help us make decisions … I think if I was sick, I would want my physician to make recommendations on proper course of treatment.”
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