"I don't know if mail service is a vastly superior cost containment tool today," said David R. Kwasny, the president of Restat, an independent pharmacy benefit manager that does not have a mail delivery service.
If guidelines are introduced primarily as a cost savings or containment tool that ignores the impact on the quality of care and restricts necessary care for infants and children, especially those with chronic illness or who are developmentally at risk, then neonatologists and pediatricians must be quick and determined to challenge the potentially damaging use of practice parameters or guidelines.
As no user charges exist for this category, waiting times serve as the main cost containment tool.
As proved by our analysis value based pricing does not result in high pharmaceutical prices when society's WTP is known and under a specific context it can be considered a cost containment tool [ 57].
Evidence from the literature is scarce about how coverage affects medicines utilization or how schemes use cost-containment tools like co-payments and formularies.
Several CBI schemes applied additional cost-containment tools: nine schemes applied a coverage ceiling, whereby the enrolee pays an indemnity if an upper limit of coverage is exceeded, and six schemes applied a co-insurance mechanism (see Table 4).
But as I discussed in a lengthy article four years ago, this theory has been fully discredited over the years as a cost-containment tool in U.S. health care.
Consequently, it becomes a mere cost-containment tool in the short run [ 29].
Related to the salary payment system as a cost-containment tool, it was found that salary payments are generally associated with lower levels of care [ 22].
Concerning measures directed at the demand of health services, we submit, first, that patient charges do not appear to be a successful cost-containment tool, as patients' sensitivity to such charges is usually quite modest.
Meanwhile, a shortcoming of the current containment modeling tool in the 3KeyMaster platform is discussed.
