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change:healthcare

Shifting Healthcare Costs and Online Pricing Tools

Know your healthcare costs and save money

Great article from Jane Sorenson-Kahn pointing out that employers see “cost-sharing among employees as a top #1 cost-control strategy.” and that employers are “less satisfied [with] online comparison tools.” That’s a bad mix. No information on price AND you’re going to have to pay for it. Sounds like going to the auto-repair mechanic who [...]

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Ways to Save Money on Your Prescription Medications

Co-Founder and COO Robert Hendrick spent a few minutes with the local TV crew to share tips on how to save money on your prescriptions. Easy steps that can add up to huge savings. You’ll be surprised!
Thanks for all of the support, and for trusting us to help you make smarter healthcare decisions and save [...]

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From Coast to Coast, Everyone is Talking About change:healthcare!

Folks from coast-to-coast are talking about change:healthcare! The New York Daily News is talking about healthcare cost savings in the east, while the team was in California presenting as part of a panel at the Health 2.0 conference. And here at home in Nashville, the Venture Capitalist arena is buzzing about the company too. We [...]

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Heading to HealthCamp SF Bay on October 5, 2009 – Will You be There?

In less than a week, a few of us will be in San Francisco for the Health 2.0 conference as well as attending the HealthCamp SF Bay. We are excited to be part of such an innovative group of folks trying to make changes in the healthcare world. You may be asking… what is this [...]

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NPR Interviews change:healthcare About New Cost Savings Twitter Service

In a phone call from the NPR affiliate in Nashville, Host & News Reporter Nina Cardona talked with change:healthcare Product Manager Chris McIntyre about a newly released service that lets people find the cost of a prescription by asking Twitter. The result… a segment on the Morning Edition radio show this morning!
The Morning Edition with [...]

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Healthcare Answers in 140 Characters

Now, healthcare answers come in 140 characters or less. Which is a far cry from the nearly 2,000-page health reform bill the U.S. Congress has been proposing.
Starting today, consumers can simply tweet healthcare questions such as “what is diabetes” to @askch and it will return a short description and a link to more information. [...]

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Use Twitter to Act on Healthcare Reform, Not Just Talk About It

Just got finished trying out the White House twitter site that allows tweeple to pop off a pre-formatted mantra in favor of healthcare reform. It’s a neat bit of technology – cool in many ways. But it’s an agenda pusher.
It’s all talk and NO action.
Now compare that with the recently-launched Twitter app from change:healthcare. It [...]

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New Email Alerts from change:healthcare!

Did you know we recently improved our email alerts?  Now, you can choose to receive weekly or monthly Ways to Save alerts and/or Activity updates.  The Ways to Save alerts are sent to you to alert you of ways to save money on your healthcare expenses. When new savings opportunities are identified, we email them [...]

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Another new feature at c:h// Filterable Activity | “What’s New”

Besides the new interface that is part of the new change:healthcare design, another great feature is the “What’s New” section located on your dashboard.  When you view “What’s New,” you will see recent activity from friends, updates to your doctors profiles and ways to save money.  We have added this and other new features [...]

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How does change:healthcare’s enterprise/employee product differ from the consumer product?

When you log into your free change:healthcare account, its simply not the same as logging into an account sponsored by your TPA (third party administrator) or employer.  But why? The simple answer is “data”.
In recent weeks we have done a lot of work on the site, considering ways we can improve the experience for our [...]

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