cost-effective
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He said planners needed to look at allowing people to "reduce their reliance on the network but do it in a cost-effective way".
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
In a study published in the Journal of Managed Care and Specialty Pharmacy, Sujith Ramachandran, associate professor of pharmacy administration, explained that a treatment can be cost-effective without being cost-saving for insurers.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
For retail investors, traditional robo advisers offer a massive pro: They are highly cost-effective, simple to use and handle things like basic asset allocation and portfolio rebalancing.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
Keeping diabetics out of emergency rooms is cost-effective medicine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
But a PIH doctor spoke up, saying that he had signed the Hippocratic Oath to practice medicine ethically, but he didn’t remember signing an oath to do it in a cost-effective way.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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