IN THIS ISSUE: ? Hospital Price Transparency in Harvard Business Review ? Hospitals Resist Charging Uninsured Reasonable Fees ? Consejo to Testify Before Energy & Commerce Committee ? Robert Kuttner in Business Week and the Boston Globe ? An Honest Look at the Individual Market Need for Hospital Price Transparency in Harvard Business Review The "Boston Globe" has a write-up of a new … [Read more...] about Hospitals Are Coming Under Growing Pressure to Charge the Uninsured Reasonable Prices
Hospitals Are Coming Under Growing Pressure to Charge the Uninsured Reasonable Prices
IN THIS ISSUE: ? Hospital Price Transparency in Harvard Business Review ? Hospitals Resist Charging Uninsured Reasonable Fees ? Consejo to Testify Before Energy & Commerce Committee ? Robert Kuttner in Business Week and the Boston Globe ? An Honest Look at the Individual Market Need for Hospital Price Transparency in Harvard Business Review The "Boston Globe" has a write-up of … [Read more...] about Hospitals Are Coming Under Growing Pressure to Charge the Uninsured Reasonable Prices
AMA Documents Health Plan Market Concentration
IN THIS ISSUE: ? Consumer Choice Community ? Galen Briefing on June 18th - Physicians Respond ? Insurance Department Wants to Regulate Retainer Medicine ? AMA Documents Health Plan Market Concentration ? Most Favored Nation Clauses Scrutinized by FTC ? Health Plans Publishing Prices Consumer Choice Community For five years I have been running a ListServ on Health Benefits Reform (HBR). … [Read more...] about AMA Documents Health Plan Market Concentration
AMA Documents Health Plan Market Concentration
IN THIS ISSUE: ? Consumer Choice Community ? Galen Briefing on June 18th - Physicians Respond ? Insurance Department Wants to Regulate Retainer Medicine ? AMA Documents Health Plan Market Concentration ? Most Favored Nation Clauses Scrutinized by FTC ? Health Plans Publishing Prices Consumer Choice Community For five years I have been running a ListServ on Health Benefits … [Read more...] about AMA Documents Health Plan Market Concentration
The Truth About the Medicare Drug Discount Card
Click here to view Grace-Marie Turner's PowerPoint presentation on "The Truth About the Medicare Drug Discount Card." … [Read more...] about The Truth About the Medicare Drug Discount Card
The Truth About the Medicare Drug Discount Card
Click here to view Grace-Marie Turner's PowerPoint presentation on "The Truth About the Medicare Drug Discount Card." … [Read more...] about The Truth About the Medicare Drug Discount Card
A New Community
Our health care system is evolving from a top-down centrally-managed Industrial-Age machine into an innovative Information Age network in which millions of consumers will be empowered to reshape the sector around their choices and needs. To facilitate this transformation, the Galen Institute soon will be creating a new Consumer Choice Community. This new service will offer an opportunity for … [Read more...] about A New Community
Seniors can gain big savings with Medicare drug cards
The new Medicare drug discount cards were activated June 1, and seniors are starting to find out for themselves whether the cards will provide real savings on their medicines. Two new studies show the savings can be substantial. Nonetheless, critics have been discouraging seniors from signing up for the cards. At a recent forum for Medicare beneficiaries in Washington, D.C., House minority … [Read more...] about Seniors can gain big savings with Medicare drug cards