Are there surprises with the implementation of the No Surprises Act?
September 13, 2021
Andréa Caballero, MPA, wrote this blog. It’s been a little over 2 years since I last wrote about surprise medical…
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Reference-based pricing: 3 models that cut health care cost inflation at its roots
April 12, 2021
Reference-based models address the root cause of high health care costs: the prices. Studies of health care costs reaffirm the…
Dr. Christopher Whaley on Opening the Black Box of Employer Health Care Spending
March 16, 2021
Julianne McGarry catches up with Christopher Whaley, PhD, Policy Researcher at RAND Corporation and one of the lead authors of…
What Xavier Becerra’s nomination as HHS Secretary could mean for employer-purchasers
December 07, 2020
As we learn that President-elect Biden has nominated Xavier Becerra for Secretary of Health and Human Services, the United States…
Headway & Headwinds in Colorado: What purchasers can do when health systems won’t budge
September 28, 2020
The new RAND Hospital Price Transparency results once again turned a spotlight on the high and disparate prices employers and…
Ashok Subramanian on why unit price is still a big deal
July 28, 2020
Suzanne Delbanco interviews Ashok Subramanian, CEO and Founder of Centivo, an alternative Third-Party Administrator (TPA) that emphasizes value-based direct contracting…
Alan Muney, MD, on why large health plans have a total cost of care advantage
July 21, 2020
Listen in as Suzanne Delbanco connects with Alan Muney, MD, MHA, former Chief Medical Officer of Cigna, former CEO of…
50 States Enacting Health Care Policy; One Searchable Database
June 22, 2020
Health care is local, and so are laws impacting health care cost and quality. If the health care system weren’t…
Christopher Koller on using insurance levers to bring down hospital prices
February 25, 2020
Suzanne Delbanco calls Christopher Koller, President of the Milbank Memorial Fund, to discuss top strategies for containing health care cost…
Robert Smith on how a purchaser alliance can change Denver’s market dynamics
November 12, 2019
Robert Smith, Executive Director of the Colorado Business Group (CBGH) on Health, checks in with Suzanne Delbanco on what’s new…