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One firm controls costs while maintaining employee preventive health care
11-30-2006 · EurekAlert!Differential cost-sharing approaches in employee health benefits encourage use of preventive care services while controlling a firm’s overall health-care costs, according to a study published recently in Health Affairs by researchers at Yale School of Medicine.
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