Hidden no more. The Employers’ Forum of Indiana (EFI) is giving people a look behind the curtain at the reality of hospital costs in the United States.
What began as the first hospital price transparency study in the U.S., commissioned by EFI and conducted by RAND Corporation back in 2017, eventually became the foundation for the Employer Hospital Price Transparency Project.
Starting in July 2022, the nation’s three largest credit bureaus – Equifax, Experian and TransUnion – will be removing nearly 70% of medical debt in collections accounts from credit reports.
On April 12, 2022, True Captive Insurance will be hosting The Future of Business & Benefits – St. Louis event at Busch Stadium, where local business leaders will discuss employee healthcare trends, self-funding health plans and how to gain control of healthcare spend.
Companies enhancing patient access to care and lowering patient costs all while slashing their own costs? That’s what earns Health Plan Hero status.
We were recently asked what Benefits Reimagined means to us…
Benefits Reimagined means that someone uninsured can get their insulin delivered overnight for free. It means an expecting mother can deliver their child and not worry about affording their deductible because there isn’t one to pay. It means that a woman battling cancer can get the clinical care she needs without having to fight the insurance system that is working against her.
Faced once again with an increase in health plan costs, Schaefer Autobody knew they needed a change. They had grown more and more frustrated with their inability to control their healthcare spend and continue to provide great benefits to their team. Another 9% increase, despite two years of declining healthcare expenditures, just wasn’t going to cut it.
This post is Part 2 in our series on Fixing Healthcare: Eliminating Rx Waste. Part 1 discussed Direct Contracting and can be read here. What if your business’s employee health plan was covering a drug that cost $350 when there was a comparable alternative that would cost you $13?
