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Do Prevention or Treatment Services Save Money? The Wrong Debate

Posted on March 26, 2009 16:29

Topics: Health Care Financing | Rates/Reimbursement/Cost

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This perspective uses employer health promotion efforts to demonstrate ways that instituting commonsense prevention measures can lead to risk reduction and cost savings and may alter the paradigm through which we view health care costs.

Goetzel, Ron Z. Do Prevention or Treatment Services Save Money? The Wrong Debate (2009). Health Affairs, 28(1), 37-41. DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.28.1.37 http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/28/1/37
 


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