SmartShopper program offers incentives to choose less expensive care

Through the Vitals SmartShopper program, employees receive cash incentives for choosing less expensive options for imaging, blood work and other areas in healthcare, the Associated Press reports. Vitals, a healthcare data firm, offers the SmartShopper program to employers and insurers in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Indiana and Kentucky.

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Tim Casey joined TriMed Media Group in 2015 as Executive Editor. For the previous four years, he worked as an editor and writer for HMP Communications, primarily focused on covering managed care issues and reporting from medical and health care conferences. He was also a staff reporter at the Sacramento Bee for more than four years covering professional, college and high school sports. He earned his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA degree from Georgetown University.

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