Thought leadership on the use of innovation to solve health care access, quality, and funding issues.
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I wrote recently about an innovative suite of health plans being offered by UnitedHealthcare that feature unique services to enhance the health and well-being of Spanish-speaking individuals. PlanBien incorporates linguistically and culturally relevant health information and customer service programs into its plan designs at no extra charge, ensuring the coverage is tailored to meet the [...]
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A headline on Life and Health News this morning caught my eye. It read, “Who will Lead? It referred, of course, to the void left in the Senate by the death of Senator Ted Kennedy. The article pointed out that Kennedy’s death could affect the leadership of the Senate Banking Committee as well as of [...]
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The current proposals for health care reform in Congress, if passed, will prevent you from having an HSA-qualified health plan ever again.
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Word is coming out of the Senate Finance Committee that consideration is being given to imposing an excise tax on health care benefits that exceed a specified threshold beginning in 2013. Although the threshold amount has not been finalized, reports suggest that the Committee may be considering $21,000 for family coverage. Reports also indicate that [...]
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This is one of the most thoroughly documented studies of HSAs that I have seen published anywhere.
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Rice said, “If you pay for your own healthcare, have a high deductible or need a service your insurance does not fully cover, we can help. The Blue Book will help you find fair prices for surgery, hospital stays, doctor visits, medical tests and much more.”
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Over on the Market to Market blog today, Mark Reiboldt posted a summary of the event he chaired today on behalf of the Technology Association of Georgia, which explored the impact of the financial crisis on the healthcare industry.
Mark wrote in his blog that he posed a question to the panel them asking whether [...]
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Back on February 5, 2008, I posted an article in this space with the headline: Carol.com Understands Healthcare Consumerism and Transparency. I was very excited about the new website Carol.com and how its creators – consumer-directed health care advocates formerly with Definity Health – wanted to do for health care what Travelocity [...]
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The Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research & Educational Trust (Kaiser/HRET – http://ehbs.kff.org/) has published their annual survey of employer-sponsored health benefits. This year’s study found more employers offering high deductible health plans and that employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts doubled since 2007.
The study showed that thirteen percent of firms offering health benefits [...]
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