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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Decis Making. 2016 Jan 19;36(7):900–910. doi: 10.1177/0272989X15626384

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Prevalence of cost conversations with and without discussion of cost-saving strategies. All visits were between patients >18 years old and specialist physicians in community-based clinics across the United States.

*Cost conversation was defined as any mention of the financial costs or insurance coverage associated with the patient’s healthcare.

†Discussion of cost-saving strategy was defined as any mention of one or more methods to reduce the patient’s out-of-pocket costs. No evidence was required that the cost-saving strategy was used or pursued, only that it was discussed.