Price Transparency

How Healthcare Price Transparency Could Gain Consumer Loyalty

by Vera Gruessner

The lack of price transparency remains a major concern of consumers that healthcare payers will need to address in the coming years. A HealthEdge survey shows that 88 percent of polled consumers are...

Consumer Satisfaction Dips When Payers Lack Price Transparency

by Vera Gruessner

Eighty-eight percent of consumers are looking for their health payer to relay complete information about their overall financial responsibility, according to a new survey by HealthEdge, indicating a...

Why Payers Should Consider Consumer Needs in Value-Based Care

by Vera Gruessner

The Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) released a new report called Health Care 2020: Consumerism showing that the health insurance industry has two new trends affecting it: a greater...

Lack of Price Transparency Leading Employers to Self-Insure

by Vera Gruessner

Some employers are finding it difficult to keep contracting with their health payers due to continually increasing monthly premium costs and a general lack of price transparency across the health...

Price Transparency Key Issue Among Health Payers and Employers

by Vera Gruessner

The movement toward price transparency is gaining strength as healthcare reform continues to stress consumer and patient satisfaction. Employers have been seeking ways to improve price transparency for...

Successful Accountable Care Organizations Use 3 Key Strategies

by Vera Gruessner

Health payers and providers who are seeking to form accountable care organizations will need to follow key steps in order to avoid the issues associated with these payment models and truly succeed in...

3 Key Strategies for a Successful Payer-Provider Relationship

by Vera Gruessner

What are the key ingredients that health insurance companies need to integrate in order to have a successful payer-provider relationship? There are a number of steps that payers and providers will need...

Affordability, Cost Transparency Key for Patient Satisfaction

by Vera Gruessner

The biggest healthcare reforms impacting health payers today include the movement toward consumer engagement and patient satisfaction. Patient advocacy groups are bringing more attention toward keeping...

Communication, Cost Transparency Impact Patient Engagement

by Vera Gruessner

Patient engagement is becoming a more and more relevant term in today’s changing healthcare landscape. With more consumers than ever before becoming responsible for their healthcare costs via...