# The Effect of Financial Incentives on Utilization of Low-cost Providers

> **NCT02249156** · — · WITHDRAWN · sponsor: **Harvard Medical School (HMS and HSDM)**

## Conditions studied

- Receipt of Radiology Studies
- Receipt of Laboratory Tests

## Interventions

- **BEHAVIORAL:** Financial incentive for choosing a lower-cost provider

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT02249156
- **Lead sponsor:** Harvard Medical School (HMS and HSDM)
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** —
- **Study type:** OBSERVATIONAL
- **Status:** WITHDRAWN
- **Start date:** 2014-08
- **Primary completion:** 2017-12
- **Final completion:** 2018-03
- **Target enrollment:** 0 (ACTUAL)
- **Why stopped:** This was an observational study. The owners of the data refused to give us the data so we could not proceed with the analyses.
- **Last updated:** 2019-07-16

## Collaborators

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## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02249156

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT02249156, "The Effect of Financial Incentives on Utilization of Low-cost Providers". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-01 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT02249156. Licensed CC0.

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