Day: November 2, 2012

The health care delivery system continues to evolve and adapt, despite (or because of)  an ever changing political climate.

In our opinion ObamaCare is the best thing that has happened to our health care delivery system and is as dynamic to the market as was the ship owners in London  who established Lloyds  several hundred years ago  – it has “upset the apple cart”, fundamentally  releasing a dormant, energizing drive among the private sector to provide competitive solutions based on the principle that a good product  fullfills needs common to most at a reasonable profit supported by consumers who perceive value.

Surgery Center Network seeks to provide competitive and transparent pricing – http://www.surgerycenternetwork.com/

 

So far, 10 organizations—including the Colorado Business Group on Health, the Leapfrog Group, the National Business Coalition on Health, the National Partnership for Women & Families and the Corporate Health Care Coalition—have endorsed CPR’s statement, which lays out two expectations: first, that by January 2014, providers will not restrict health plans from making price and quality information available for use in transparency tools (MANAGED CARE CONTRACTS PROHIBIT PRICING DISCLOSURE – WILL THAT NECESSARILY CHANGE?) , and second, that by the same time, health plans will give self-insured customers full use of their own claims data (TEXAS HOUSE BILL 2015 ON STEROIDS!)

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