On February 10, 2022 price inflation jumped by 7.5% over the past 12 months, its highest annual increase in 40 years. For employers and other health care purchasers that monitor their claims cost and utilization data religiously (who doesn’t?), this news prompts questions from purchasers about how inflation will impact their future health care spend.
“A provider is always going to want to get paid. They’re always going to call to make sure the member’s covered, and if we’re that single point of entry and can provide that expertise and do it in a way that drives satisfaction for them, they’re more likely to leverage us as we talk about care planning on a go-forward basis.” – Scott Doolittle, CFO, Quantum Health
“Are there opportunities to steer to a quality provider or facility down the street? If we can’t do that with the data, then we’re not serving the interest of our employers and their employees and getting them the health care that they need.” – Thi Montavlo, Willis Towers Watson
“What I see now is confusion, disorientation, uncertainty, and anxiety. That creates an opportunity, but it doesn’t provide a direction.” – David Blumenthal, President of The Commonwealth Fund, speaking at
Suzanne Delbanco chats with Anna Sinaiko, PhD, Assistant Professor at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Anna Sinaiko studies patient or individual decision making in health care settings, a concept known as “consumerism” in health care.
Sixteen states received a passing grade in CPR’s 2020 Report Card on State Price Transparency Laws. While it is a win that more consumers have access to price information to select lower-cost providers, consumer shopping is not the silver bullet to the nation’s health care cost problem.
Suzanne Delbanco chats with Zach Brown, PhD, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan. Zach Brown used a quasi-experimental approach to analyze the impact of New Hampshire’s price
Take a moment now to think of all your monthly memberships and subscriptions – we’re willing to bet there’s at least one that you’re likely not using to its full
There was a time when benefit design was straightforward, consisting of a flat $20 co-pay and insurance covered the rest. Then, health care costs began to grow at an unsustainable
Listen in to Kaveh Safavi, MD, JD, Senior Managing Director, Head of Global Health Practice at Accenture, as he discusses recent research on the associated costs of the United State’s
“Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but
Suzanne calls Frederick Isasi, Executive Director of Families USA, to understand the aspects of today’s health care insurance landscape that are putting the greatest strain on families. They discuss prescription
Thinking about offering CDHPs? Read my story first. Looking back on open enrollment last year, I can see that my choice to enroll in a high-deductible health plan – also
Did you know that 40% of Americans struggle to come up with $400 to cover an emergency? Jeff Levin-Scherz highlights this reality to help contextualize the very real decisions low-wage
In February of this year, Legislators introduced the Chronic Disease Management Act of 2018. If passed, the act would amend IRS requirements for all individuals with high-deductible health plans (HDHPs)
“Have you checked out that place? It has a five-star review on Yelp” Without the context, you’d probably assume someone was talking about a hole-in-the-wall restaurant. What if I told
Listen in to CPR’s Director of Member Services, Ryan Olmstead, catch up with Lynn Quincy, Director of the Altarum Healthcare Value Hub. They discuss Lynn’s favorite issue brief, the pitfalls
Not too long ago, we busted the myth that high prices mean high quality care and that we can’t extend the retail mindset to health care. But do consumers actually
Benefit designs that emphasize consumer cost-sharing are now the norm in the U.S. As adoption of high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) and other cost-sharing models increase, we need to continue to
Here’s a new take on Goldilocks we bet you’ve never heard before. After years of fleeing from angry bears, Goldilocks needed a knee replacement and started shopping around for care.
