Amazon Whole Foods employees can check surgery prices, at 400+ U.S. surgery destinations; find zero-interest financing at SurgeryShopper.com....
Care Coordination: Closing the Gaps on Patient Advocacy
Coordinating optimal care when patients need surgery requires professionally-trained and experienced care coordinators and concierge team members....
SurgeryShopper + Level Funded Employer-sponsored Benefit Plans
Level funding plans offer all of the benefits of traditional employer self-funding with the added benefit of stable monthly costs so groups can reap the financial rewards of being self-insured. SurgeryShopper helps you cost contain surgery claims to keep specific and aggregate stop-loss claim levels in check....
Three new forms of HRAs for employers to understand and evaluate
In this article we explain the new HRAs: qualified small employer (QSEHRAs), individual coverage (ICHRAs) and excepted benefit (EBHRAs)...
Some Medical Travel Can Expose Companies to Patent Infringement Risk
Touted as "new", or novel, the practice of U.S. surgeons meeting patients in foreign countries where facility charges are lower to perform surgery was once novel and new...about 15 years ago. That's already a "been there - tried that" and has been replaced by U.S. hospitals and surgery centers that compete aggressively all over...
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Why hospitals usually charge more than ASCs for the same procedures by the same surgeons
Across the USA, hospitals tend to charge almost 40% more for identical procedures by the same surgeons when compared with freestanding outpatient surgery centers counterparts. Why?...
No More Cadillac Tax!
House lawmakers overwhelmingly passed legislation to repeal the Cadillac tax, the Affordable Care Act's tax on high-cost health plans 419-6...
Why Are Hospitals So Irritated with President Trump’s Executive Order on Healthcare Price Transparency?
It's easy to sign Executive Orders and Make Proclamations when you won't have to implement them in the real world of U.S. healthcare...
Where to Find Secret Airline Discount Codes?
Secret airline discount codes are a "thing". You can save hundreds of dollars if a promotion that matches dates, flights and destinations you want...
How to Reduce Hospital Readmissions
Reducing hospital readmission is important to patients and to their insurers as a quality and outcomes indicator and results in cost reductions for all concerned....
