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TALENTO: Power to the People – a Plea to the New Congress

Congress is currently all spun up trying desperately to elect a Speaker of the House. When they’re ready to get to work, AllBetter CEO Katy Talento has published a prescription for a bipartisan health care agenda in the Jewish Policy Center’s journal. As you might imagine, the agenda centers around AllBetter values of transparency, fairness, eliminating conflicts of interest, and re-aligning incentives.

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WSJ: The Biggest Scam Going is a Drug Discount Program Designed to Help Cash-scrapped Hospitals Serve More Poor Patients

The Wall Street Journal has done the world a service by blowing the whistle on one of the longest-held secrets in Washington – the 340B drug discount program is a lucrative profit-maker for rich, bloated hospital systems rather than a safety net for rural and inner city clinics that it was designed to be.

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NYT and WSJ: “Non-Profit” Hospitals Are Actually Bond Villains

The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both released a bombshell series of reports, called They Were Entitled to Free Care. Hospitals Hounded Them to Pay, Hospital System to Refund Poor Patients Who Were Entitled to Free Care and Hospitals Often Don’t Help Needy Patients, Even Those Who Qualify. These investigations describe a

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Harvard Business Review: Employers should use hospital price transparency data to negotiate better rates

Harvard Business Review has published important advice for employers – hospital price transparency data is out there in the wild. It shows (or it should show, if the hospital is fully compliant) which health plans and networks are getting the best deals at that hospital. When AllBetter is helping our clients design a better health

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