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Nashville Technology Council Presentation

Light in the Darkness: How Information Will Create Transparency in Healthcare
Presentation Transcript
Miriam Paramore
SVP Strategy and Government Affairs at Emdeon
August 26, 2010
Presented at “The Naked Hospital – A Provocative Look at Healthcare” a Nashville Technology Council super roundtable event., Miriam Paramore of Emdeon, mentions change:healthcare in reference to cost transparency in the healthcare industry.
http://www.slideshare.net/nashtechcouncil/light-in-the-darkness-how-information-will-create-transparency-in-healthcare

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Transparency and Cost Reduction

I always appreciate words of wisdom from someone who has “been there, done that” and Christopher Parks recent guest post on Catalyst Healthcare Research blog – For the Record exemplifies his experience with and passion for healthcare.
In Healthcare Costs, Transparency and Feeling Vindicated Parks says, “… the lessons we’ve learned about transparency and healthcare are [...]

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Healthcare Costs, Transparency and Feeling Vindicated

Christopher Parks was the guest blogger on “For the Record” by Dan Prince, President of Catalyst Healthcare Research. Read his entry “Healthcare Costs, Transparency and Feeling Vindicated.“
http://www.catalysthealthcareresearch.com/learning-center/for-the-record/2010/08/17/healthcare-costs-transparency-and-feeling-vindicated/

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Change is on the Horizon

For three years now, change:healthcare has had the goal to help people save money on their healthcare expenses.  We want to help lots of people – as many as possible. We won’t say we’ve found the magic sauce (we’ll leave that to journalists like those at the New York Times, but we will say that [...]

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Factors Fueling Rising Health Care Costs

As premiums go up, it may be easy to blame the insurance carrier, but it’s important to consider the ways in which patients can influence price hikes. When policy-holders begin to draw more money from the carrier, the carrier must find a source of funding to pay for this increase in consumption, which often takes [...]

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change:healthcare in The New York Times

Bringing Comparison Shopping to the Doctor’s Office
New York Times: Claire Cain Miller
Published: June 10, 2010
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SAN FRANCISCO — Americans comparison-shop for items as small as groceries and as big as cars. But they rarely compare prices on their health care. When a doctor recommends a test or a procedure, most patients simply go [...]

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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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The 55 Buy In Option

Under the new Medicare plan, consumers ages 55 to 64 would for the first time be allowed to buy into the federal program for the elderly, starting as soon as 2011. Congressional aides estimate that two million to three million people would participate.
The Medicare plan could be good news for some in the 55-64 bracket [...]

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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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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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