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McDermott Will & Emery Employee Benefits
MAY 17, 2022
The FAQs were released to provide clarity on the required drug price disclosures identified in the Transparency in Coverage final rule (the Rule) issued […]. The post Safe Harbor Issued for Reporting Healthcare Prices Under Transparency Rules appeared first on EMPLOYEE BENEFITS BLOG.
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Corporate Synergies
AUGUST 31, 2021
These delayed transparency rules will give employers and insurers more time to prepare, and some rules are pending further regulations. The post Agencies Delay Transparency Rules for Healthcare Pricing appeared first on Corporate Synergies. On August 20, 2021, the U.S
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Corporate Synergies
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
As price transparency tools become more accessible, employers need to ensure that they are also educating employees in healthcare consumerism. Several states and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid have implemented healthcare price transparency measures to help address the unsustainable.
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Employee Benefit News
DECEMBER 7, 2023
The keys to success lie in improved price postings, meaningful action at the state level and grassroots involvement to influence policy.
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Corporate Synergies
DECEMBER 2, 2019
The government’s mandate on healthcare pricing transparency appears to be a positive step for medical services consumers. The post Our Take: New Regulations for Healthcare Pricing Transparency appeared first on Corporate Synergies.
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Employee Benefit News
MAY 13, 2024
Experts from Turquoise explain how employers can save 27% across 500 common healthcare services using the Hospital Price Transparency Rule.
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Employee Benefit News
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
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McDermott Will & Emery Employee Benefits
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
In the 118th Congress, the US House of Representatives is keenly interested in healthcare price transparency. Three House committees—Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce—each approved legislation that would advance price transparency objectives.
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Benefit Resource Inc.
APRIL 7, 2023
Price Transparency Unearthing the price of health-related items is often more difficult (and frustrating) than it should be. But with price transparency tools like GoodRx and Healthcare Bluebook , you can find the product you need at a price that’s clear at the start.
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CorpStrat
DECEMBER 7, 2022
But even if this is the case, most Americans don’t realize they can comparison shop to make sure they’re getting the best price for their healthcare services. Paying more for healthcare doesn’t necessarily mean higher quality service or better outcomes. According to Healthcare Bluebook data, U.S. Educate Employees.
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InterWest Insurance Services
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Despite newly enacted federal transparency rules for hospitals and health plans, some large hospitals are still not posting the required price lists for their services, according to a recent report. Each procedure has a specific service code, which the enrollee may not have. It may get easier soon.
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HR Professionals Magazine
JUNE 28, 2023
By Will Brown When it comes to healthcare, we may have a choice as to which carrier we prefer and the type of plan. Factor #1: Rising Healthcare Costs The primary reason for the unsustainability is the one affecting our pocketbooks— the continuous rise in healthcare costs.
Griffin Benefits
DECEMBER 30, 2021
Does Healthcare Consumerism Even Have A Chance? It’s difficult to become more informed consumers of healthcare when large swaths of that very system seem to be working against us at every turn. Shopping for Healthcare Services - 8 More Ways to Save Through Pricing Transparency. The History of Healthcare In America.
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Benefit Resource Inc.
JUNE 1, 2023
One of the “mountains” you may be facing is combating rising healthcare costs. The Challenge Rising healthcare costs are one of the main concerns for Americans. In fact, an overwhelming 95% of the public believes that making health care costs more transparent to patients should be a priority for Congress.
AssuredPartners
NOVEMBER 5, 2020
The rule requires group health plans and health insurance issuers in the individual and group markets to not only provide easy-to-understand personalized information on enrollee cost-sharing for healthcare services, but they must also publicly disclose the rates they actually pay healthcare providers for specific services.
HR Professionals Magazine
JUNE 28, 2023
As the healthcare landscape has evolved to value-based care, employers, payers and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) have implemented new strategies to improve quality of care and affordability. That’s why, now more than ever, it is imperative that healthcare is focused on the patient journey. Ninety percent of the nation’s $3.5
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Corporate Synergies
MARCH 29, 2021
A new study suggests the importance of benefits literacy in helping employees make informed healthcare choices. The rise in apps and benefits technology platforms offer consumers more access to data, increased price transparency and presumably more control. Patients shopping around.
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Employer Connection
DECEMBER 5, 2022
can now access an enhanced online tool designed to help them locate doctors and facilities in their area with the best quality and price on a medical test, imaging or procedure. The easy-to-use, intuitive tool from Healthcare Bluebook is offered at no additional cost to covered employees via their employer-sponsored plan.
Employer Connection
JULY 12, 2022
Shopping for healthcare is a great way to save on healthcare costs. can use Healthcare Bluebook TM to locate quality healthcare while saving on healthcare costs. Fair Price transparency , making it easy to find lower costs on medical tests, imaging and procedures by using a laptop, tablet or smartphone.
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Employer Connection
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
And, as provisions in the Transparency in Coverage Rule make healthcare price information publicly accessible, consumers will gain even more information to make informed healthcare decisions.
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HR Professionals Magazine
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
On December 27 th , 2020, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (the ‘CAA’) was signed into law, and it includes several provisions designed to increase transparency in healthcare pricing. You might be surprised – pricing disparities across negotiated arrangements between different plans can vary more than 2,000%.
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Benefit Resource Inc.
JUNE 6, 2019
Mammogram pricing breakdown. Another resource on what to expect for pricing is the preventative care benefits for women page on Healthcare.gov. As a patient, Sam felt like she should have been better informed of the price differences before the treatment was administered. 4 Steps to be a Smart Healthcare Consumer.
Employer Connection
JUNE 13, 2022
1, 2022, the federal Transparency in Coverage Final Rule requires employer-sponsored group health benefit plans to disclose information in machine-readable files on a public website and to update them monthly. For plan years beginning Jan. Files are required for in-network rates and out-of-network allowed amounts and billed amounts.
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HR Lineup
APRIL 9, 2024
Vendor Selection: Research and evaluate AI contract management vendors based on their technology capabilities, industry expertise, implementation support, and pricing models. Develop a comprehensive implementation plan outlining key milestones, timelines, and resource requirements.
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Empuls
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
High rents and property prices made it difficult for individuals and families to find affordable housing. Rising prices for goods and services, including food and energy, put pressure on household budgets. Fluctuations in energy prices could impact household budgets, especially during the winter months.
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Corporate Synergies
JULY 23, 2018
Is reference-based pricing the formula to manage out-of-control healthcare costs? A healthcare cost-control method called reference-based pricing is beginning to gain momentum. One constant: healthcare and pharmacy costs continue to accelerate and no regulatory action has been able to slow this runaway train.
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BerniePortal
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Check out this column in Employee Benefits Adviser : The latest effort in the push for healthcare price transparency is a new federal requirement for hospitals to publish prices for charges for uninsured or out-of-network insured patients publicly on their websites. As of Jan.
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TalentCulture - Employee Benefits
OCTOBER 24, 2023
In fact, companies with carefully designed wellness programs experience lower healthcare costs, less absenteeism, and higher employee satisfaction levels. Be prepared to track metrics such as increased productivity, reduced healthcare costs, decreased absenteeism, and improved employee morale. This isn’t just wishful thinking.
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Total Employee Benefits
AUGUST 2, 2021
Choosing the appropriate healthcare plan for your company is a large and important investment. A self-funded benefits plan, or self-funded insurance, is a policy where your company assumes financial responsibility for employees’ and their dependents’ covered healthcare expenses. What is a self-funded benefit plan?
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Achievers
JANUARY 21, 2020
The impacts of social recognition are very similar to monetary recognition as long as the recognition is specific and transparent when it comes to describing the behavior demonstrated. When companies use a social recognition program , they are four times as likely to improve their stock prices, and twice as likely to have higher NPS scores.
Insperity
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Cost of living: The measure of the average change over time in prices paid by consumers in a particular market for goods, such as food, gas, housing and transportation. The Consumer Price Index (CPI), an economic indicator released each month by the U.S. Embrace pay transparency. What is pay transparency? Your culture.
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Corporate Synergies
DECEMBER 17, 2018
Reference-based pricing was a hot topic in 2018. Employers facing relentless escalating healthcare costs are on the lookout for cost-control strategies. Over the past few years, reference-based pricing has emerged as a viable option for some self-funded groups. We don’t have a healthcare issue; we have a billing issue.
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Corporate Synergies
JULY 9, 2018
Healthcare providers and payers are racing to deliver care more efficiently, and are likely to profit from paradigm-shifting mergers and unconventional partnerships. Healthcare providers and payers are racing to deliver care more efficiently, and are likely to profit from paradigm-shifting mergers and unconventional partnerships.
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Best Money Moves
JULY 10, 2018
A lack of healthcare benefits is causing financial toxicity for employees across the country. The truth is many employees need help navigating healthcare benefits to lower out of pocket expenses and avoid , “financial toxicity.”. They’re skipping medicines or skipping other things to buy medicines.”.
Insperity
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Cost of living: The measure of the average change over time in prices paid by consumers in a particular market for goods, such as food, gas, housing and transportation. The Consumer Price Index (CPI), an economic indicator released each month by the U.S. Embrace pay transparency. What is pay transparency? Your culture.
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Bayzat
OCTOBER 16, 2023
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Corporate Synergies
AUGUST 20, 2018
There’s a shift from narrow networks that just focus on containing healthcare costs to networks that focus on value-based care. Historically, healthcare networks have been limited, or narrowed, for the purpose of containing healthcare costs. Containing healthcare costs comes at a price. And that’s a good thing.
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NOVEMBER 5, 2019
Don’t believe us that you have $100 lying around for healthcare? Your healthcare (while saving on taxes at the same time), your bills, your student loans. Avoid a high shopping price tag. You can still have all of those, but avoid the high price tag. (Like a Health Savings Account or a Flexible Spending Account ).
Corporate Synergies
AUGUST 27, 2018
A good drug price is irrelevant if the medication shouldn’t have been prescribed in the first place. Healthcare plan participants typically use pharmacy benefits more than any other part of the health & welfare program. Previously, employers were mainly concerned with the drug prices PBMs offered. As Seen In. RELATED TOPICS.
AssuredPartners
OCTOBER 11, 2022
Specifically, in the event of: (i) emergency services provided by nonparticipating providers in healthcare facilities, (ii) non-emergency services by nonparticipating providers in in-network facilities, and (iii) air ambulance services.
Workers' Compensation Perspectives
JANUARY 29, 2023
Besides the transparency and predictability standardized plans offer, they also allow greater time for providing support to workers and their families. This standardization does not obviate the need for customization and active case management but does lead to consistent treatment, fewer delays and ultimately better outcomes.
Workers' Compensation Perspectives
MARCH 12, 2019
I’ve received a lot of questions recently on workers’ compensation healthcare spending in Canada, the US and other countries. These questions appear have arisen as several US states and political analysts have proposed consideration of “single payer” healthcare systems for their jurisdictions.
Employee Benefits
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
However, there is something of a vicious cycle here, with 57% of these businesses planning to raise prices in order to cover the cost of higher wages ; only serving to increase the pressure on living costs. Nevertheless, there is only so far these payments can go, and employers will need to take a longer-term, more sustainable approach.
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Abel HR
JANUARY 18, 2021
This generation is passionate about civil rights, environment, employment, and healthcare for them and their parents. Ensure that your organization conforms to social, environmental, and good governance creeds such as diversity, inclusion, and transparency. Find Out What Social Causes are Important to Them. Develop a Company Culture.
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