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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 did for airline [...]
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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 [...]
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The continued adoption of Consumer-Directed Health Care plans is facing a major challenge according to an article posted on the US News & World Report website. The report sited a survey which found that 43 percent of doctors said they have heard little, if anything, about these plans, and less than half (48 percent) feel [...]
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Last month, I wrote in this blog about Dr. Benjamin Brewer who reasoned that since his practice covers 80% to 90% of what the average person would ever need a doctor for, he could have covered his salary for 2007 and the costs of all his staff and overhead for less than $20 per patient [...]
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A new survey released this week by Buck Consultants, an ACS company and one of the world’s leading human resource and benefits consulting firms, showed that costs for the most popular types of health care coverage are projected to increase at double-digit rates through the remainder of 2007 and into 2008. The survey analyzed responses [...]
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