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Prescription Case Study

Just wanted to repost the Pharmaceuticals Cost Variation case study. Without transparency in the industry no one can understand that costs vary as much as 20-40% between major pharmacy chains and 50% from one part of the city to the next.
Download the study by clicking rxpricecasestudy.

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Gotta love it when people talk about the dCard.

It is like music to my ears when people talk about the dCard.  In case everyones crazy summer plans have caused you to forget about the alarming physician information inconsistencies… here is a brief reminder, and a great highlight from Nashville Medical News.
“Change:healthcare is also tackling a problem that’s been a bugaboo for physicians since [...]

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Nashville Medical News – Ink!

Nashville Medical News has written a great story and we wanted to make sure to share it with our readers.
Check it out online at here – Nashville Medical News. Or you may download the (PDF) Healthcare Enterprise: change:healthcare.
Highlights: Today, change:healthcare offers consumers access to a medical bill-management platform as well as other information to help [...]

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New Web Sites Help People Find the Best Values in Health Care

The Tennessean highlighted change:healthcare and Data Advantage. Continue to watch as we move into more transparent territory. You can download the pdf new sites help people find the best values in health care
Highlights: “change:healthcare — a startup — recently re-launched its cost ratings tool on the
Web called Medstimate. It uses claims data showing [...]

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Mass. State Health Plan… Success or Failure?

Tomorrow marks the one year anniversary of the Mass State Health Plan deadline requiring most individuals to carry health insurance. Though the insurance law has been praised by some and criticized by others, Drew Altman president of the Kaiser Family Foundation believes the law falls somewhere in the middle.
So what’s the main problem, and [...]

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Transparency, Accountability, and Competition… not necessarily in that order.

Once again I had the privilege this morning to hear Sen. Bill Frist speak, this time at a breakfast held at Lipscomb University.  Though last time the topic was highly focus, today the slate was clear and anything to do with health care was on the table.  Although our time was limited, Frist managed to [...]

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Transparency… Medstimate… Ink!

Check out the Nashville Business Journal from Friday. Startup surfs transparency wave. Because you cannot read the whole article online… Click here to download the .pdf.
Highlights:
“The company has radically revamped its online Medstimate service, which discloses pricing for services from more than 1.5 million doctors and hospitals and price ranges for [...]

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Wondering how much you should pay for a medical service? Check our new Medstimates!

If you have ever wondered what would be a reasonable price for a medical service, you are not alone. Millions of Americans, especially those who are uninsured, walk into doctors offices every year with no idea of how much their care will cost. That’s a scary feeling, especially if you have to pay for [...]

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Lunch with Sen. Frist

Well… kinda.  Yesterday was a Nashville Health Care Council luncheon titled “Financing the Deal.”  (Ex-) Senator Dr. Bill Frist was the moderator for the panel of financial industry health care analysts.  Some were from the venture capital arena, some were from banking and others from equity firms.
There was decent discussion regarding the money available in  [...]

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“Site offers to untangle health-care confusion”

Check out this great story published in the Williamson A.M (Tennessean) about Christoper.
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008804290319
You can also download a PDF of the article.

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