Archive for General
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Recent Forbes Article on Price Transparency
So, the pricing your employees get for healthcare services may not be quite as clear as the windows shown here, but this is one of the biggest issues consumers of healthcare face -the lack of price transparency. Employers have tried their best to make it easier for employees to understand pricing,...
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iTriage App
U.S. HealthWorks has added a new offering for clients and their patients, the iTriage® app for smart phones. With so many employees relying on their phones for information today, this is yet another application to connect them to your clinic. They can check for information about a particular ...
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EMR Implementation May Be Bad for Your Health (PLAN)!
Health care costs are supposed to be contained by more efficient coordination of health care tests and treatments. Much of this is supposed to be connected to the EMR, which is intended to bind together the process of diagnosis and treatment methodologies and assist practitioners in the attainment...
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Consumer Reports Bluebook on Healthcare Pricing
You and your employees may benefit from accessing this information. Consumer Reports, in association with many other reputable sources, has compiled a "bluebook" for healthcare pricing. The data they have compiled can be searched by zip code and type of service to find the average fee accepted...
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Walmart Uses Exclusive Contracting with Mayo
We have spoken of Centers of Excellence in the past, now Walmart is taking the concept very seriously with a contract they have executed with several top-notch providers (including the Geisinger Clinic, Mayo and the Cleveland Clinic) . The agreement will offer surgery (heart, spine and transplant)...
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Insurer and PCPs Try Something New
Independent Health (a large and well-established insurer in upstate New York) announced this week that it has entered into an agreement with 140 primary care physicians in the area to offer much more highly coordinated care to IH beneficiaries. They indicate that this is in response to the Affo...
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AETNA / Aurora ACO Guarantees 10% Savings
This may not be about on-site clinics but it is certainly about self-funded employers and the opportunities that on-site clinics can yield when coupled with local health care organizations, insurers and ACO's. Aetna and Aurora announced that they will guarantee health care cost savings to employers...
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Bellin Health Cited by the NY Times
Bellin Health - Wisconsin It does not matter whether you know about Bellin, or not. They are making their presence felt in a big way in their own market area in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where they are matching efforts and maintaining a presence in a state with a lot of other prominent health care...
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ABIM and “Choosing Wisely”
This post will have a follow-up in our next newsletter, to provide more extensive commentary. And, we are delinquent in not picking up on this sooner, the announcement was made last April. The American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation has established the "Choosing Wisely" web site. Per ...
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“Guidance for a Reasonably Designed Employer-Sponsored Wellness Program Using Outcomes-Based Incentives
How many meetings have you attended where the discussion inevitably falls to what incentives really work with employees to promote better health? What is too much? What is too little? What type of incentive works and what doesn't? Cash? Gift card? Premium reduction? Day off? ...
