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Saving Money!

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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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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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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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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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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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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