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On-site clinics at retailers can create high-value, incentive-aligned care for workers, and pay for themselves by opening up services to the public as well. If the clinicians at those clinics are paid to keep people healthy, charge zero or low cost-sharing, and refer out to only high-performing specialists and directly-contracted acute care, employers can easily save double digits, avoid bankrupting enrollees with […]

Katy Talento joins Dr. Josh Luke for a 2-part interview (plus a bonus round) on price transparency, lobbying opposition to surprise billing solutions, the Trump campaign, tax-exempt status for hospitals, and how patients can save money today.  Part 1 Part 2 Bonus round

Wonderful encapsulation of the reasons behind the Great-Again Health Care movement (our name, not his!) by the inestimable Marty Makary, MD, whose new book, The Price We Pay: What Broke America’s Health Care System and How to Fix It, is a game-changer. Advance copies were passed around the White House and HHS/DOL leadership during the past year and was quite

Katy Talento joins the Johns Hopkins University Cost and Quality in Health Care Research Group, as co-author of a new report: The True Cost of Health Care: An Analysis of Americans’ Total Health Care Spend, showing how almost half of federal expenditures (low estimate!) are actually spent on health care. Are we getting our money’s worth, given that credible estimates put the amount of overtreatment, undertreatment, sub-par treatment, misdiagnosis and outright fraud at

Katy Talento is interviewed as part of this thought-provoking piece by Newsy on how skyrocketing drug prices are motivating Americans to travel to Canada to purchase lower-cost insulin.  Watch the piece

Katy Talento and Karen Kerrigan of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council opine in the Morning Consult on why it’s so important to end surprise billing and restore fair and honest prices in health care.  Read the piece

Rosen Hotels is a case study of one of the very first employers to demonstrate the disruptive power of high-value, employer-led employee health benefits, using Health Rosetta principles. This company saved hundreds of millions over 40 years, reduced injury and low-quality care, and has donated $11 million to the local community, utterly disrupting cycles of poverty in a sustainable

Axios reports about how the rise in health care costs for patients and their employers is crushing economic growth and stealing the American dream.   Read the piece  

Seats – a 500-employee company in Wisconsin, uses transparency to get lower costs and way better care and productivity – consistently getting thousands less per member than the national average, and held costs steady since about 2007. Their employees paid lower premiums in 2013 than they did in 2008!  Read More

Game-changer! HHS/CMS drops a proposed regulation requiring full disclosure by hospitals of contracted rates for all payers. Employers and other purchasers of care, let your voices be heard. The well-funded opposition surely will. Comment period closes September 27, 2019.  Read More  

Another employer case study: Spirit Aerosystems, headquartered in Wichita. Instead of offshoring their jobs from an Oklahoma site, they partnered with the UAW union to fix health care with direct contracting for primary care. A unionized workforce can be a powerful incentive for change – collective bargaining agreements often prevent the type of cost-shifting and cost-sharing increases that many

HUGE! President Trump signed an Executive Order to require an end to secret prices in health care. The order directs HHS to issue a regulation requiring prices for hospitals and for DOL-HHS-Treasury to do a tri-department proposal for insurance companies to disclose prices. Quick turnaround on deadlines. Stay tuned!  Read More