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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

Are Generic Medications Always Cheaper?
Your Medicare Advantage plan may not allows a switch to the branded medication if it’s cheaper than the generic, so download our free discount card

Will government payment benchmarks threaten access to care?
Opponents claim that surgeons would be forced to leave geographic areas with a mandated rate insufficient to cover healthcare costs… That’s probably not true.

House E&C Subcommittee Passes Surprise Billing
No Surprises Act (H.R. 3630) legislation prohibits balance billing on out-of-network emergency and some out-of-network ancillary & post-stabilization services

FREE Prescription Savings Card Now Available on SurgeryShopper!
Online surgery price shopping marketplace, SurgeryShopper.com provides instant savings at the pharmacy register on brand name and generic prescription medications all FREE!

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

UnitedHealthcare tosses 17,500 So. Fla patients out-of-network
17,500 patients with UnitedHealthcare forced to seek care elsewhere or pay higher out-of-pocket costs as UHC and Boca Raton Regional Hospital fail to renew hospital contract

SurgeryShopper.com selects OpenEMR as its Electronic Medical Records software
Online surgery price shopping marketplace, SurgeryShopper.com announced today that it has selected OpenEMR to coordinate communications between care concierge team members, providers and patients

SurgeryShopper.com strikes private deal with Global Health Sources
Online surgery price shopping marketplace, SurgeryShopper.com announced today that it has acquired Mercury Health Travel

Where does your state rank in terms of hospital costs per procedure?
You shouldn’t have to pay more for your surgery because of which state you live in. Use our no-cost website to discover fixed price surgery in the USA from high-quality providers no matter where you live.

20.6 million people in the USA with cardiovascular disease and its risk factors still lacked health insurance 3 years after ACA rollout
Harvard Study reports 20.6 million people with cardiovascular disease and its risk factors still lack health insurance

Self-funded Employers Replace Cost-sharing with Direct Deals with Providers
Thirty percent of self-funded employers (10-499 EEs) have already transitioned to managing health care cost increases through direct deals with providers and domestic medical travel options

President Trump Expected to Sign Executive Order for Price Transparency
The expected Executive Order could require insurers, doctors, hospitals to provide information about the cost of healthcare services and supplies.

SurgeryShopper.com Selects Higowell as Case Management Software
SurgeryShopper.com has selected Higowell, the world’s leading cloud-based surgical travel management software chosen as its case management platform

Surgery Shopper.com acquires Medical Tourism Journeys
Online surgery price shopping marketplace, SurgeryShopper.com announced today that it has acquired Medical Tourism Journeys

SurgeryShopper.com strikes private deal with Mercury Health Travel
Online surgery price shopping marketplace, SurgeryShopper.com announced today that it has acquired Mercury Health Travel

Hospitals Charge Consumers and Employer-paid Benefit Plans as much as 400% of Medicare
Despite spending billions on hospital care, many employers aren’t sure if their in-network hospitals are high- or low-priced