William O. Haff
San Antonio insurance consultant’s sentencing delayed again to 30 November, 2016. Smart money bets more indictments to come, following this week’s indictment of Samuel Mullen……
Continue reading Consultant Sentencing Delayed Again – Now 30 November 2016
Continue reading A Golden Ticket That Fast-Tracks A Drug Through The FDA
Continue reading Is Expanding Medicaid a Good Idea for Texas?
In total, prosecutor Mark Roomberg said, the commissions resulting from the rigged contracts were “$2.5 million for the entire group.”
Continue reading Rigged Insurance Contracts Bring Indictments / Guilty Pleas
A Medical Bill Review audit of a large, 4,500 life employer group performed in 2016 exposes the truth about PPO “discounts.”
Continue reading Are PPO’s Saving Money, Or Costing Employers More?
By Mark Flores
Just eight days after a federal court slammed CIGNA with a $13M judgement, 113 of CIGNA’s self-insured clients, along with their Plan Administrators have been named as defendants in a massive fraud lawsuit, alleging the plans “participated in a conspiracy and pattern of unlawful, reckless, and deceptive conduct to conceal an embezzlement and/or skimming scheme”.
Continue reading Over 100 CIGNA Administered Plans Sued For Embezzlement
The following article illustrates the angst hospitals are undergoing in defending their indefensible and egregious pricing strategies through their PPO collaborators. The solution posed in this article by a hospital advocate is: Identify Reference Based Pricing (RBP) patients and don’t treat them! But that short sighted response brings on Cash Pricing strategies through companies like Asserta Health (www.assertahealth.com) which often times saves plan sponsors even more money than otherwise would have been paid hospitals under a typical RBP plan. Making lemonade out of lemons……………
Continue reading More Proof Reference Based Pricing Is Growing Market Share
Continue reading Insurance Consultant To Be Sentenced Wednesday, 28 September?
This year, taxpayers will cover about 70 percent of what is spent on health care in California, according to a new analysis released Wednesday by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
Most TPAs do not pass on the strong discounts for prescription drugs or do not have access to it. A quality TPA should be offering all prescription drugs at AAC + admin fee.
Continue reading TransparentRx – Elimination of Hidden Costs
Continue reading Proceeding With Caution On Worksite Clinics
If Medicaid allowed overseas treatment for Hep. C (Harvoni) the savings by utilizing a five star hospital system 495 miles south of Florida would save taxpayers 753 X ($95,000 – $19,000) = +$57 million...
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Continue reading Illinois Extents Hep. C Treatment for Medicaid Recipients
Primary care physicians presented the best return on investment for hospitals
Continue reading Which Physicians Generate The Most Money for Hospitals?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – September 2016
Apex Management Group (Oak Brook, Illinois) has announced a 4 Year Rate Lock on their APEX Suite of MEC Offerings.
Continue reading Apex Management Group Announces 4 Year Rate Guarantee
It is the Obama administration, and not the insurers, who perpetrated this heist….
“After I got off the phone with him, I realized: That’s actually just insurance for my insurance,” she said, laughing.
Continue reading Would You Like Some Insurance With Your Insurance?
See our detailed directory listing of TPAs, which includes their 2015 revenue, claims business by type and by volume, types of client managed and other contact information.
Continue reading 2016 Directory of Third-Party Administrators
“We guarantee no “balance bills” to our covered members for the amount taken as a discount from your provider’s retail bill.”
Continue reading Cost Plus Health Plan Guarantees No Balance Billing
“16% more likely to die if they are admitted on a Sunday compared with a Wednesday” SOLUTION: Eliminate all health care services on Sunday…………..
Continue reading Will England Eliminate 7 Day Health Care – Don’t Get Sick On Weekends?
Imagine being in control of your individual employee healthcare costs. Our low cost network puts you in control of your daily healthcare spend. You decide whether the employee is better off using existing insurance options or pre-paying for the specific procedure. Our pre-paid pricing is based on discounts of up to 70% and can save companies millions of dollars a year.
Texas Super TPA with growing market share is a TPA worth watching…….
Continue reading Super TPA Purchases Maxor Administrative Services
Victor Lustig
Just like sticker prices on new cars, no one ever pays hospital chargemaster rates. So why have them? A previous blog posting (Hospitals Dismiss Significance Of Chargemaster Prices?) offers a possible reason, while the following article does too.
Continue reading Study: Chargemasters still drive up revenue at US hospitals
Employers, adept at tracking business expenses, are surprisingly lax when it comes to double-checking healthcare costs.
Continue reading How Employers Can Avoid Outrageous Health Care Overcharges
“We learn from history that we do not learn from history” – George Hegel
Continue reading Have PPO Networks Perpetrated The Greatest Heist In American History?
McALLEN — A life-saving medication that costs more than $600 in the United States is only a few cents in Mexico.
California medical consumers will enjoy strong new protection against surprise out-of-network medical bills..………..
Continue reading California Passes Balance Billing Protection Legislation
“The bill would relieve patients from having to pay surprise medical bills out of pocket by requiring insurers to reimburse out-of-network doctors and other health providers a “fair amount” and doctors to accept the payments, said its author, Assemblyman Rob Bonta (D-Oakland).”
“That rate would be 125 percent of the amount Medicare pays for the same service or the insurer’s average contracted rate for the service, whichever is greater.”
Editor’s Note: If California passes this bill into law (very likely), Reference Based Pricing in California will take off in the private sector. No network plans, similar to what we have implemented in Texas since 2007, will have solved the problem of balance billing risk. And if Texas passes a similar law TPA’s like Caprock Health Plans and Continental Benefits, both of which administer Reference Based Pricing plans will achieve new business sales that will make Ben Feldman look like an amateur.
Continue reading California Senate Approves Reference Based Pricing
