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IBM to cover 100% of primary care visits

In an article today on BusinessInsurance.com states that IBM plans to cover 100% of primary care visits in 2010, going against current trends of pushing a great portion of the health care cost burden onto employees shoulders.
With 80% of their 115,000 employees currently on one of the company’s self-insured health care plans, the cost of [...]

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100 Ways to Save Money on Healthcare

The LPN to RN Blog offers some great tips on how to lower your healthcare expenses.  100 tips to be exact, and some of them are really good advice.  Here are some of my highlights with my notes in italics.  For a complete list of 100 Ways You Can Lower Your Healthcare Costs visit their [...]

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Prescription Coupons – A Simple Way to Save Money!

Photo Courtesy of Bartificial on Flickr
Who knew prescription coupons could save me $75?!  I didnt…
I was speaking to my doctor this morning about a new prescription she suggested I try.  It sounded like a great option for me. As she proceeded to enter the information into their e-prescribing system, she told me that this drug [...]

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Step in the right direction: HMS offers online bill pay tool for hospitals

HMS (Healthcare Managements Systems Inc.) announced August 7th (I know, I am a little behind) that they have an online bill payment tool available for hospitals.  This would allow them to send bills and statements electronically, as well as recieve online payments from patients.
Excepts from their announcement: “Our online bill pay product creates a particular [...]

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Reviewing your medical bills for errors!

Shannon Buggs at the Houston Chronicle has written a great piece “Close Look at Hospital Bills Saves Money” on taking a closer look at your hospital bills for errors.  Though there have been numerous pieces on this topic, this one in particular (find it here) has  some great tips included at the end. I have [...]

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Healthcare Technology Companies Align to Add Cost Information Tool With Guaranteed ROI to Health and Wellness Application

Resulting Instrument Will Show Consumers, Employers, and Health Plans How to Obtain Up to 30% Savings in Healthcare Spending
San Diego, CA (PRWEB) August 31, 2009 — Two consumer healthcare technology companies today announced a strategic alliance to create the first personal health information tool with an embedded cost savings application to help employees, employers and [...]

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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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Launched! New change:healthcare design and interface… Part 1 of many!

After long awaited anticipation, change:healthcare has launched a new user interface!  And we are really excited about it! This design is representative of our new approach to saving money on healthcare and helping people make smarter decisions.
Our new interface is intended to make our application simpler and easy to use and understand!!  Yep, that’s right… [...]

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Healthcare Consumerism Index in Chiropractic News

change:healthcare’s Healthcare Consumerism Index (HCI) has been featured in Chiropractic New! Check out the article online at Chiropractic News Online or download the PDF here.
Highlights:
“Just launched by healthcare consumerism company change:healthcare, the Healthcare Consumerism Index gives employers and employees a wealth of information so both can improve the cost-effectiveness of their healthcare purchases.
Nashville, Tenn. [...]

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Helping employees save money… and it’s super simple!

That’s right!  Our new cost savings alerts for our TPA and employer clients (i.e. our employee users) are finally here… and boy are they hot stuff.  Now an employee can log into their change:healthcare account to see specific ways they can save money on their prescription expenses.  And all they really have to do is [...]

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