Secret hospital prices are now more accessible to the public than ever! Thanks to PatientRightsAdvocate.org, you can search and download hospital prices in your town in just a few clicks!
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A new report from OpenTheBooks.com highlights the absolute boondoggle that federal COVID assistance generated for the 20 largest “nonprofit” hospital corporations in the U.S.
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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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
New study finds hospitals are price gouging cancer patients on chemotherapy. And that’s if they’re even showing their prices at all.
This video burns down the idea that businesses, municipalities and other employers have to put up with the broken status quo. Join the Revolution!
Virginia House Bill 481 codifying the Trump/Biden price transparency regulation forcing hospitals to show their secret prices has passed with overwhelming support, and with a little help from AllBetter Health.
Katy Talento, CEO of AllBetter Health and Executive Director of the Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries, spoke with AnneMarie Scheiber, of the Heartland Institute on the Heartland Daily Podcast. In both the associate podcast and the cover story for the Heartland Institute’s Health Reform News monthly magazine, Katy and AnneMarie talked about the Trump-Biden
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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
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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
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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
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