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....
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 That's already a "been there - tried that" and has been replaced by U.S. hospitals and surgery centers that compete aggressively all over...
Continue readingWhy 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?...
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....
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...
Millions of American Employees Affected by Trump’s Recent Executive Order
"This is healthcare. We just roll with what they hand us. That’s business as usual for this industry.”...