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The Downsides to Healthcare Price Transparency
Last year, more than half of working Americans reportedly checked prices for the health services they required. Healthcare providers and policy makers are scrambling to meet consumer demand for accurate pricing, and it's not easy.
Last year, more than half of working Americans reportedly checked prices for the health services they required. Surprised? This is a very new phenomenon, catalyzed by the massive shift in the economics of healthcare toward high-deductible health plans, where consumers pay the full cost of the MRI, the X-ray, the specialist visit, etc, until they hit that high deductible. Consumers have more skin in the game than ever before.
Healthcare providers and policy makers are scrambling to meet consumer demand for accurate pricing, and it’s not easy. An important meeting on the topic, the Health Care Transparency Summit, just concluded in Washington, with speakers condemning how convoluted and confusing it can be to get the information, and then how absurd the numbers look once you have them.
Read more at The Wall Street Journal: http://on.wsj.com/1xBygpI
Overcoming Employment Barriers for Lasting Social Impact: Freedom House 2.0 and Pathways to Work
April 16th 2024To help celebrate and recognize National Minority Health Month, we are bringing you a special month-long podcast series with our Strategic Alliance Partner, UPMC Health Plan. Welcome to our second episode, in which we learn all about Freedom House 2.0 and the Pathways to Work program.
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Government agencies have created an online portal for the public to report potential anticompetitive practices in health care; there are changes coming to the “boxed warning” section for chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapies (CAR T) to highlight T-cell blood cancer risk; questions about the safety of obesity medications during pregnancy have arisen in women on them who previously struggled with fertility issues.
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Making Giant Strides in Maternity Health Through Baby Steps
April 9th 2024To help celebrate and recognize National Minority Health Month, we are kicking off a special month-long podcast series with our strategic alliance partner, UPMC Health Plan. Welcome to our first episode, which is all about the Baby Steps Maternity Program and its mission to support women throughout every step of their pregnancy journey.
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Gene, Light Therapy Combo Shows Promise Against Prostate Cancer Cells in Proof-of-Concept Study
April 18th 2024In their preclinical model, the researchers found efficacy both in vitro and in vivo by using CRISPR-Cas9 to mimic porphyria and combining the technology with light therapy.
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