Catalyst for Payment Reform

A Blueprint for Action

In the commercial market, health plans negotiate rates on behalf of health care purchasers; they use purchasers’ collective volume to command better value for our health care dollars – or

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A $4,999.00 Surprise

What happens when a patient goes to the emergency room and gets treated by a doctor that’s out of network – even if the hospital facility is in-network? Or if

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Health Tech – Where is it headed?

2018 was a great year for health tech startups. According to Rock Health, venture capitalists invested in over 290 companies, giving a total of 6.8 billion dollars toward all aspects

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MYTHBUSTER: HDHPs make better consumers

Benefit designs that emphasize consumer cost-sharing are now the norm in the U.S. As adoption of high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) and other cost-sharing models increase, we need to continue to

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