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Capital BlueCross continued its commitment to educating and engaging members about health care decision making by launching MyCare Advisor (SM), which is an online suite of transparency tools that assists people in understanding and comparing cost, quality and satisfaction among providers. More specifically, this enhancement to existing tools provides estimated total cost [...]
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In tandem with athenahealth, Humana offers solutions such as real-time adjudication, which enables health-plan members to have a claim processed instantly before leaving the doctor’s office.
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Health Alliance Medical Plans, a provider-sponsored health insurer in the Midwest, has licensed Thomson Reuters Treatment Cost Calculator, an application that tells health plan members how much they will pay out-of-pocket for upcoming healthcare services.
The Treatment Cost Calculator generates cost estimates based on a health plan’s claims data at the provider level, so the estimates [...]
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The primary conclusion reached from the research is that healthcare pricing transparency is not possible under the current practices and pricing policies of most hospitals and some ASCs.
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“Offering pricing and quality data transparency represents a huge step forward in empowering healthcare consumers with information so they can make informed decisions regarding their medical care,” said Myra Ameigh, President of Vistar Technologies.
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Continuing with the thread about what might happen if healthcare reform does not pass, here is an interesting product that is emerging in the New York City area.
Innovation Alert
The growing numbers of uninsured and underinsured now have a new low-cost option for obtaining health care services and prescriptions at significantly reduced prices. Transparent Health Network, [...]
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At the risk of alienating some of their network physicians, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee rolled out an online tool this week to nearly 2 million of its members that provides cost and quality information on its doctors. According to a news story published in the Tennessean, members of the state’s largest health insurer can now [...]
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Here is an innovative health care idea that has come out of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota. It is a website called thehealthcarescoop.com and it is social networking, health 2.0-type website where everyday people can post thoughts about their health care experiences. It is designed to be a place where consumers can post their [...]
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