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Tag Archives: health care costs
Price Transparency in Healthcare
What is Price Transparency and How Does it Relate to Healthcare? Price transparency is exactly what it sounds like: a push for information on the prices of certain healthcare services to be made available to consumers. As healthcare in the … Continue reading
Posted in Affordable Care Act, cost savings, employee benefits, health care, health care costs, health care price transparency, health insurance, pay transparency, prescription drug prices, preventive health care, wellness
Tagged health, health care, health care costs, health care coverage, health care price transparency, health insurance, health insurance claims, health insurance premiums, healthcare, healthcare industry, medicare, price transparency, reference-based pricing
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Discussion About Prescription Drug Coverage Grows With Awareness of Opioids, Contraceptives, Spiking Prices
In the past year, legislators, employers, the media and healthcare consumers have focused on a variety of topics related to prescription drug coverage and use. The opioid epidemic sweeping the country, changes in access to contraceptives and the rising prices of prescription drugs have all contributed to a renewed interest in how insurance plans cover prescription drugs and how health care consumers use them. Continue reading
Posted in compliance, contraceptive mandate, employee benefits, employer-sponsored group health plans, health care, health care costs, health care price transparency, prescription drug prices, Supreme Court
Tagged compliance, contraceptive mandate, employee benefits, health care costs, health care price transparency, opioids, prescription drugs, Supreme Court
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Referrals Drive Up Hospital Revenue—and Health Care Costs
As the health care field becomes increasingly competitive, hospitals are acquiring independent practitioners in order to increase referrals and revenue. The American Medical Association says that one third of all doctors—mostly primary care practitioners—work for hospitals or for practices wholly or partially owned by hospitals. Continue reading
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Premium Increases Slow, Out-of-Pocket Expenses Rise in 2015
A Kaiser Family Foundation survey found that while premiums have only risen about 4 percent in 2015 on average, deductibles have been rising faster than total health costs—and faster than wages. On average, deductibles have risen about seven times faster than wages, which have stayed relatively flat. Continue reading
