Today, employers need to explore emerging trends in health care prices and spending. The right strategy today can save a large amount of money tomorrow. What is happening in Minnesota? “…the individual and small group health insurance plans in Minnesota reflect increasingly stable markets, even as...
We’ve been trusting health care financial “experts” to deliver “affordable” care, but they are failing. The “experts” have given us an average annual 6.1% premium increase during the past 20 years. During this same period, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) averaged 2.1%. Health...
Imagine your doctor prescribing you Myalept – the most expensive prescription medicine in the U.S. in 2020 – at a cost of more than $71,000 a month. The drug is prescribed to individuals suffering from generalized lipodystrophy, a rare disease too complicated for this...
Going forward, affordable health care benefits require increased price transparency, but more than price is needed. Also necessary are new group insurance strategies – like the BENIC plan....
More affordable health care has become the goal of all employers offering group insurance. Benefits administrators can show employees ways to save health care dollars using powerful price transparency tools now available in Minnesota. We will provide you with that tool....
Until now, employers and employees have not been told about the new Minnesota law that requires clinics to post their prices in their waiting rooms and on their websites. This requirement started on July 1, 2019. Why you might be hearing this for the first time...