Transparency
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HCCI and Blue Health Intelligence® Announce Major New Data Sharing Partnership
Read more: HCCI and Blue Health Intelligence® Announce Major New Data Sharing PartnershipAddition of Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies’ data will expand nation’s leading resource for understanding health care cost trends. CHICAGO (November 12, 2019) – The Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) and Blue Health Intelligence® (BHI®) announced today a multi-year data partnership, significantly expanding HCCI’s data resources and bolstering its ability to provide research insights…
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HCCI Provides Comments for CMS’s Proposed Outpatient Prospective Payment System Rule
Read more: HCCI Provides Comments for CMS’s Proposed Outpatient Prospective Payment System RuleOn August 9, 2019, CMS released a rule for calendar year 2020 revisions to the Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system (CMS-1717-P).Our comments specifically refer to Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 180 on Price Transparency of Hospital Standard Charges. Feedback will be used to guide discussions on improving price transparency in…
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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 Announces End of Data Sharing Agreement with United Healthcare
Read more: HCCI Announces End of Data Sharing Agreement with United HealthcareHCCI will continue to analyze spending trends; Researchers will have HCCI data access until the end of 2022 The Health Care Cost Institute and United Healthcare are sunsetting their data collaboration relationship agreement, that has provided United’s deidentified insurance claims data for analyses of U.S. healthcare spending, utilization, and market performance. HCCI continues to receive…
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The Wall Street Journal: Behind Your Rising Health-Care Bills: Secret Hospital Deals That Squelch Competition
Read more: The Wall Street Journal: Behind Your Rising Health-Care Bills: Secret Hospital Deals That Squelch Competition“Last year, Cigna Corp. and the New York hospital system Northwell Health discussed developing an insurance plan that would offer low-cost coverage by excluding some other health-care providers, according to people with knowledge of the matter. It never happened. The problem was a separate contract between Cigna and NewYork-Presbyterian, the powerful hospital operator that is…
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The Opacity of Transparency: The Search for a Cure to Our Health Care Woes
Tags: TransparencyRead more: The Opacity of Transparency: The Search for a Cure to Our Health Care WoesBy: Niall Brennan Health care spending is exceedingly difficult to control for our nation, the states, and private payers, but also for individual patients and providers. While there has been some moderation in spending in recent years in programs like Medicare, the health share of gross domestic product (GDP) is projected to continue to rise…
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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…
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KHN: Need A Medical Procedure? Pick The Right Provider And Get Cash Back
Read more: KHN: Need A Medical Procedure? Pick The Right Provider And Get Cash BackLaurie Cook went shopping recently for a mammogram near her home in New Hampshire. Using an online tool provided through her insurer, she plugged in her ZIP code. Up popped facilities in her network, each with an incentive amount she would be paid if she chose it. Paid? To get a test? It’s part of…
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Health Payer Intelligence: Medicare Advantage Evaluation Requires Transparent Claims Data
Read more: Health Payer Intelligence: Medicare Advantage Evaluation Requires Transparent Claims DataBy Thomas Beaton February 23, 2018 – The growth of the Medicare Advantage (MA) market requires the release of more claims data to evaluate the commercial and government impact of the program, according to a recent JAMA commentary from the Health Care Cost Institute, ProPublica, and the VA. “Despite the important and increasing role of…
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ER spending increased 85%, driven by price increases for the most severe cases (2009-2015)
Read more: ER spending increased 85%, driven by price increases for the most severe cases (2009-2015)Medical bills from the Emergency Room (ER) are a mystery to many patients in the US health system. From incredibly high, varying charges to surprise bills resulting from in/out of network confusion, many Americans have no idea what to expect when it comes to the cost of this necessary service. Recently, Vox reporter, Sarah Kliff,…