By Grant Dattilo On January 10, 2022, the Federal Health and Human Services Department released the following notice about at-home COVID-19 test kits: "Beginning January 15, 2022, an individual with private health insurance coverage or covered by a group health plan who purchase an over-the-counter COVID-19 diagnostic...
Maria Lopez bought a home pregnancy test and confirmed that she was pregnant. After sharing the good news with her husband, she decided to look for an OB/GYN doctor nearby. She heard about the new Health Information Exchange and was happy to find a new...
What, if anything, can employers do to mitigate expected increases in 2022 employee health insurance premiums? Mercer predicts an average 4.7% increase, while Willis Towers Watson says to look for 5% increases.[i] Some employers, however, are seeing far greater increases....
This is our problem: The cost of health care has spiked higher, but the quality of care is falling. Patients have no effective means of learning the price of care before using it, or of publicly reporting on quality of care in today’s patient-unfriendly health...
A dangerous side-effect of the COVID-19 pandemic includes a dramatic increase in the number of hospital-acquired infections. Hospital-acquired infections happen when a person receives medical treatment in a hospital inpatient or outpatient facility. Recently, the Centers for Disease Control published a concerning report about a spike...
“How," we asked in our 2020 manual about health care, "does a Minnesota provider explain why it requires $43,359 for the same hip replacement performed for $6,666 by a different Minnesota provider?” Suppose instead of a hip replacement you wanted to buy a car. In the...