Health Care Cost Transparency, Surprise Billing, and the Employee Benefits Industry
Typically, patients, and their employers, don\'t know the cost of health care or are given inaccurate estimates. Then come the surprise medical bills and costly overruns of employers' benefits budgets. Here\'s a look at the health care cost transparency problem and how people are trying to solve it.
December 05, 2018
My ER experience and the unsustainable health care trajectoryIt wasn't my first ER experience, but it was my first ER visit in almost 30 years. And it wasn't like you see on TV.
February 15, 2019
Surprise billing: the U.S. needs better definitionsHere are some proposed terms and definitions that might make creating, passing and implementing “surprise billing” legislation easier.
February 11, 2019
Baseball-style arbitration to settle medical bills?The price-negotiation strategy encourages doctors and insurers to offer more moderate (and reasonable) rates for medical bills.
June 21, 2018
Jury deems Centura Health $230K surgical bill 'unreasonable,' awards $766A woman was sued by a Colorado hospital seeking more than three times what it had already been paid for her surgery.
December 26, 2018
Balance-billing court cases force hospitals to justify chargesAs balance billing becomes more common, courts have stepped in to mediate cases and determine what "average market price" a hospital can actually charge.