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cost shifting  

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  • Cost shifting exists when a hospital, physician group, or other provider raises prices to one set of buyers because it has lowered prices to some other group. The term has also been applied to managed-care firms that are similarly said to have raised premiums to one set of purchasers because it had to lower premiums to some other set. [Source: Encyclopedia of Health Services Research; Cost Shifting]

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