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September 9, 2022
I moved from the east coast to the west coast seven years ago. My employer had several options to choose from for my healthcare benefits. In addition to options with national insurers, such as...
September 8, 2022
Although there are many variables influencing healthcare costs, the most important are unit cost and utilization. Unit cost is subject to many constraints in relation to both healthcare and the broader...
August 24, 2022
I read the 725-page draft of the Deficit Reduction Act[1] so you don’t have to. Well, I skimmed 427 pages of it while focusing on the 164 pages which make significant changes to prescription drugs. This article outlines...
July 7, 2022
In a recent Inspire article, Are We In For Significant Healthcare Cost Increases?, David Axene explained why healthcare cost trends may soon accelerate. This article explores one of the drivers for that...
July 1, 2022
“Mother-May-I” is a classic kids’ game that teaches little ones to honor their mother by having players request to take steps towards their mother but only taking steps if their mother allows it! While it would be strange...
June 23, 2022
The story of consumer value in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) individual marketplaces echoes one of the great epochs of our nation’s history where a sense of manifest destiny culminated in a quest to unite the coasts...
June 3, 2022
Health care costs continue to increase faster than the rest of the economy. Recent projections by the CMS Office of the actuary show that US health care is pushing towards a 20% share of overall GDP, an all-time record...
January 25, 2022
Shared savings arrangements have increased in popularity as healthcare shifts towards value-based care. In its most basic form, the total healthcare costs of members associated (i.e., or those attributed)...
January 5, 2022
Provider reimbursement models are evolving as the healthcare system attempts to combat rapidly rising healthcare costs. A major development has been the push towards value-based care (VBC). Value-based payment
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