Senate HELP Committee
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Surprise out-of-network medical bills during in-network hospital admissions varied by state and medical specialty, 2016
Read more: Surprise out-of-network medical bills during in-network hospital admissions varied by state and medical specialty, 2016Out-of-network billing practices have increasingly garnered attention as individuals with commercial health insurance continue to experience “surprise billing.” A surprise medical bill commonly describes a charge to a patient for care delivered by an out-of-network (OON) professional who works within an in-network facility. We used the Health Care Cost Institute’s (HCCI) vast commercial claims database to…
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HCCI Responds to Chairman Alexander’s Request for Recommendations to Address Rising Health Care Costs
Read more: HCCI Responds to Chairman Alexander’s Request for Recommendations to Address Rising Health Care CostsHCCI was recently requested to respond to a request from Senate HELP Committee Chairman, Senator Lamar Alexander, for recommendations to address America’s rising health care costs. HCCI recommends establishing a comprehensive multi-payer source of health claims data which could then be used to evaluate the performance of the health care system and future policy proposals.
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HCCI’s Response to Senate Request for Feedback on Price Transparency
Read more: HCCI’s Response to Senate Request for Feedback on Price TransparencyOn February 28, 2018, HCCI, among other key stakeholders, was asked to provide feedback to several questions posed by six U.S. Senators on the issue of health care price transparency. The Senators are launching a bipartisan effort to increase health care price and information transparency to empower patients, improve the quality of health care, and…