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How Clinical Informatics Can Uncover Major Saving Opportunities in Healthcare Plans

Griffin Benefits

As healthcare costs have risen rapidly in the last decade, employer-sponsored health insurance premiums have followed,1 affecting both organizations and employees. Data analytics is the first step in answering that question, directing employers toward what medical situations can sink a healthcare plan. WANT TO LEARN MORE?

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Innovation is Necessary to Meet the Challenge of COVID in 2022

Workers' Compensation

A recent study provides a potential opportunity for employers and insurance companies to reduce their risk exposure through early sequencing and treatment proactively. Employers and insurance carriers should actively encourage adopting and implementing new innovative testing and treatment avenues to limit their risk exposure.

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New Transparency Requirements for Health Plans

AssuredPartners

This rule, entitled Transparency in Coverage, requires group health insurance carriers and self-insured plans to disclose rates and cost-sharing information for all covered items and services.

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Adjusted Community Rating and Its Role in Health Care Costs

Insperity

Examples of these taxes and fees include: Transitional reinsurance fee – designed to help stabilize premiums in the individual health insurance market for those with pre-existing conditions. Insurer excise tax – this tax on health insurance carriers is expected to total $8 billion in 2014. Strength in numbers.