Hospitals send you bills with demands to pay their rates as if you entered into a contract. If you never signed a form prior to treatment agreeing to pay whatever your insurance does not cover, then you did NOT enter into a contract. However, most of us DO sign those forms. Hospitals count on using […]
The FAIR PRICE PLAYBOOK: Don’t Pay an Unfair Price You Never Agreed to In Advance Read More »
A little known provision was tucked in the giant spending bill at the end of 2020 – a Christmas miracle! It required, starting at the end of 2021 (i.e. last week), that health insurance brokers have to disclose to their clients ALL their forms of compensation. The goal is to eliminate the hidden conflicts of
Thanks, Congress! 2022 Launches New Era of Broker Transparency Read More »
Today, the Biden Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a series of tough measures to crack down on hospitals that are brazenly flouting rules, in effect since January 1, requiring posting of previously secret negotiated and cash prices for every item and service they provide to patients. As part of the proposed annual
KABOOM! Biden HHS Proposes Smack-Down on Price-Hiding Hospitals Read More »
With the recent Biden Executive Order doubling down on Trump-era price transparency requirements on hospitals and insurers, you might think that the Swampian special interests trying to keep hiding prices from patients and other purchasers of care would finally be silenced. But we know that the Swamp never sleeps. Even after the hospitals were absolutely
Today, the Biden White House issued a wide-ranging Executive Order ordering his agencies to prioritize economic competition in a number of industries, including health care. In particular, the order directs HHS Secretary Becerra to “support existing price transparency initiatives for hospitals, other providers, and insurers along with any new price transparency initiatives or changes made
For self-funded health plan fiduciaries such as employers and their officers, and for policy-makers bombarded with demands to protect the gravy train from the special interests in the health care supply chain, this list is for you. This list is also for patients and their loved ones, so that they know that they’re not alone
The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled recently that a class action case could proceed against Aetna and Optum for using so-called “dummy” billing codes whereby Aetna told Optum-owned providers to “bury” charges for these miscellaneous billing codes into the billed charges for the self-funded health plan operated by Mars Inc. The plaintiff, Sandra
AllBetter CEO Katy Talento talked about why costs are going so high in health care, what employers can do about it, and why politicians face impossible choices in COVID response. Listen to the podcast.
Talento on TechTalk podcast: Employers are the “bright spot” in health care Read More »
AllBetter CEO Katy Talento discusses with Dr. Eric Larson how innovative employers, working with next-gen advisors, are delivering radical savings and more generous health benefits.
Talento on The Paradocs Podcast: How Employers Can Save Health Care Read More »
AllBetter CEO Katy Talento and Johns Hopkins Business School Professor Ge Bai, PhD published an op-ed in MedPage Today about the many types of compensation that traditional health insurance brokers receive from their true clients – the carriers.
Today, three Democrat judges of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals laughed their way through a judicial smackdown of a ruling against AHA in favor of the Trump price transparency rule requiring hospitals to publicly post all their prices – including negotiated rates with insurers and discounted cash prices for the uninsured.
DC Circuit Sides with Employers and Patients v. Hospitals Read More »
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