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How Clinical Informatics Can Uncover Major Saving Opportunities in Healthcare Plans

Griffin Benefits

Data analytics is the first step in answering that question, directing employers toward what medical situations can sink a healthcare plan. But to fully understand any healthcare plan issue — and know how to fix it — requires clinical informatics, where experts examine data from a medical perspective. WANT TO LEARN MORE?

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Want to Save on Insurance? Be a Smarter Healthcare Consumer

Stratus.HR

While you think you’re only paying $15 or $25 for an office visit, the final cost is picked up by your health insurance carrier – and that cost eventually makes its way back to you by way of premiums in your plan renewal. Being a good healthcare consumer means making smart choices for your medical care. Bottom Line.

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Innovation is Necessary to Meet the Challenge of COVID in 2022

Workers' Compensation

The issues will include: evaluating temporary disability benefits, delivering medical treatment, and estimating the nature and extent of disability. New sequencing testing provides hope to speed identification and treatment, and those should be rapidly deployed in the workers’ compensation medical delivery system over the next few weeks.

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New Transparency Requirements for Health Plans

AssuredPartners

The Laws Two federal laws that have been finalized in the last year require greater transparency regarding the cost of certain prescription drugs and medical services. No Surprises Act provisions Effective January 1, 2022, the No Surprises Act requires the following of self-funded and fully insured health plans as pertains to transparency.

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Adjusted Community Rating and Its Role in Health Care Costs

Insperity

Insurer excise tax – this tax on health insurance carriers is expected to total $8 billion in 2014. Medical device sales tax – this tax on the sale of certain taxable medical devices will indirectly increase health insurance costs as manufacturers raise prices to cover the tax. Strength in numbers.