Major Changes in Benefit Design: A Plausible Way to Control Costs?

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To explore the potential changes benefit design could have on controlling health care spending and the policies that accompany these changes, a small invitational meeting was conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,through a joint effort of its Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO) initiative and State Coverage Initiative (SCI) programs. The meeting brought together health care stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives to engage in intellectual discourse on outcomes of previous changes, recently implemented changes, and promising policies for future changes that could help to control costs.