What is the predictable effect of cutting reimbursements to medical providers to less than today’s Medicare rates? The propsed Minnesota public option health plan is built on that idea....
Be aware of these changes With the stroke of his pen, President Joe Biden officially signaled the end of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency as of May 11, 2023. Employees may be hearing a great deal about this through news reports and social media. You may...
Recently, employers were surprised and frustrated by a new government-required mandate regarding health insurance premium reporting. Employers had received a notice requiring them to report insurance premium cost data to their insurance companies. The insurance companies, employers were told, would then report this data to the...
Kaiser Family Foundation found that the health insurance premium for an employer-provided medical plan for a family soared to $22,389 in 2021. This is an increase of 27% since 2014, when the Affordable Care Act’s provisions took effect.[1] It’s not enough to say “Well, that’s...
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...
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...