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Talento Talks about Hospital Price-Hiding with Heartland Institute
Katy Talento, CEO of AllBetter Health and Executive Director of the Alliance of Health Care
The FAIR PRICE PLAYBOOK: Don’t Pay an Unfair Price You Never Agreed to In Advance
Hospitals send you bills with demands to pay their rates as if you entered into
Thanks, Congress! 2022 Launches New Era of Broker Transparency
A little known provision was tucked in the giant spending bill at the end of
KABOOM! Biden HHS Proposes Smack-Down on Price-Hiding Hospitals
Today, the Biden Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a series of tough
AllBetter Health Releases Report Debunking Arguments Against Price Transparency in Health Care
With the recent Biden Executive Order doubling down on Trump-era price transparency requirements on hospitals
President Biden Doubles Down on Trump Price Transparency Rules in Sweeping Executive Order
Today, the Biden White House issued a wide-ranging Executive Order ordering his agencies to prioritize
AllBetter Health Releases Devastating Compilation: The Human Cost of the Sick Care Status Quo
For self-funded health plan fiduciaries such as employers and their officers, and for policy-makers bombarded
Court Ruling Against Aetna and Optum in “Dummy” Billing Codes Case Should Be a Wake-up Call For Self-funded Group Health Plans
The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled recently that a class action case could
Talento on TechTalk podcast: Employers are the “bright spot” in health care
AllBetter CEO Katy Talento talked about why costs are going so high in health care,
Talento on The Paradocs Podcast: How Employers Can Save Health Care
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/Bai Op-ed: Employers Beware – Is Your Insurance Broker Really Working for You or the Carrier?
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.
DC Circuit Sides with Employers and Patients v. Hospitals
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.
Finding Hospital Prices is Now Easier than Ever
Secret hospital prices are now more accessible to the public than ever! Thanks to PatientRightsAdvocate.org,...
Read MoreHealth Care Bond Villains? Tax-Evading, Price-Hiding Hospital Corporations Raked in
A new report from OpenTheBooks.com highlights the absolute boondoggle that federal COVID assistance generated for...
Read MoreTALENTO: Power to the People – a Plea to the
Congress is currently all spun up trying desperately to elect a Speaker of the House....
Read MoreWSJ: The Biggest Scam Going is a Drug Discount Program
The Wall Street Journal has done the world a service by blowing the whistle on...
Read MoreNYT and WSJ: “Non-Profit” Hospitals Are Actually Bond Villains
The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both released a bombshell series of...
Read MoreJudge Rules: FL School District Allowed to Sue Giant Brokerage
FL school district has defeated a motion to dismiss its lawsuit against Gallagher - a...
Read MoreHarvard Business Review: Employers should use hospital price transparency data
Harvard Business Review has published important advice for employers – hospital price transparency data is...
Read MorePrice Transparency Strikes Again: New study shows capricious price variation
New study finds hospitals are price gouging cancer patients on chemotherapy. And that's if they're...
Read MorePatientRightsAdvocate.org Highlights Health Rosetta Plans That Are Saving Health Care,
This video burns down the idea that businesses, municipalities and other employers have to put...
Read MoreHealth Plan Heroes: AllBetter Partners with National Patients Advocacy Group
This podcast describes the Health Plan Hero award program, developed by Patients Rising, in partnership...
Read MoreVirginia Legislature Smacks Down Price-Hiding Hospitals (with a little help
Virginia House Bill 481 codifying the Trump/Biden price transparency regulation forcing hospitals to show their...
Read MoreDirect Contracting Between Employers and Hospitals, In Real Life: AllBetter
Direct contracting between employers and hospitals is all the rage. But it's easier said than...
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