Can claim-based insurance lower healthcare costs?

Three leading insurers are now selling a new kind of policy that may change the behaviour of their customers and reduce high medical costs from private hospitals that make up the bulk of patient bills.

Their aim is to make customers acutely aware of their hospital choice right from the start; it is too late once claims are submitted as insurers have no say in how doctors and hospitals treat and charge patients.

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