Change Healthcare, Health Solutions Plus (HSP), and Casenet were among the top-ranked solutions in the 2019 Best in KLAS report for price transparency, payer claims and administration, and payer...
Price transparency, data exchange strategies, and the challenges of addressing administrative burdens will be among the key discussion topics for payers at this year’s HIMSS Global Conference and...
CMS has launched a new price transparency app that shows users which medical services and tests are covered under Medicare, the agency announced in a recent blog post.
The free...
The hospital price transparency mandate that went into effect on January 1 is still ruffling feathers among healthcare providers, leading CMS Administrator Seema Verma to reiterate the importance of...
Starting January 1, 2019, hospitals will be required to post their price lists online in an effort to increase price transparency and empower consumers to make informed choices about their care.
The...
Nine of the nation’s most influential payer organizations, including AHIP and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), have released a new set of guiding principles aimed at eliminating...
CMS has proposed a new rule that would enhance drug price transparency by requiring drug manufacturers to publish wholesale prices of Medicaid and Medicare prescription drugs during television...
CMS has proposed a series of policy changes for Medicare that would promote prescription drug affordability within Medicare, and has also requested stakeholder comments about ways to improve price...
The 2018 Best in KLAS report ranked the best vendor solutions for payer claims administration, care management, price transparency, and payer analytics based on five industry performance criteria....
In an effort to improve transparency and customer engagement, Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) of Louisiana launched an online consumer price comparison portal.
The portal, called SmartShopper, allows...
The nation’s largest employers are taking a second look at what type of health insurance they buy, and why. The American Health Policy Institute (AHPI) surveyed over 400 large companies and...
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont (BCBSVT) announced in a company press release this month that the payer has achieved the highest scores for member satisfaction and efficiency rankings for the...
Healthcare price transparency remains a key issue for health payers across the country. In order to strengthen member retention efforts especially during open enrollment periods, payers will need to...
A major problem still impacting consumers within the health insurance market is the potential for seeing high out-of-pocket costs. Many individuals are still underinsured despite the significant...
High-deductible health plans are becoming more and more common across the health insurance industry. With the many changes that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has brought, payers are attempting to...
In order to reduce ever rising healthcare costs, health insurance companies will need to improve price transparency among their health plans as well as within their provider networks. The Robert Wood...
Families and individuals who have purchased healthcare coverage on the ACA health insurance exchanges may have seen that monthly premium rates are expected to rise 25 percent in 2017, but should be...
Health insurance companies are still struggling with improving price transparency in order to gain greater trust from their consumer base. One survey has shown low customer service satisfaction and a...
A new survey from the healthcare alliance Premier found that healthcare payers are not transitioning to value-based care payment arrangements as quickly as medical providers would like, according to a...
Healthcare payers are being instructed to offer standardized plan and benefit designs as the federally facilitated health insurance marketplace is working to improve consumers’ ability to...
