Health insurers must provide transparency tools to consumers on Jan. 1
Health insurers are required to provide transparency tools via their websites starting Jan. 1, 2016, to consumers who are enrolled in their ...
Solutions to Gun Deaths that the NRA Would Not Oppose.
Today’s Managing Health Care Costs Number is 5,947 Source Highly public shootings, like the (terrorist) attack on Planned Parenthood in Col...
CA Spine Surgeons Admit Illegal Pay for Referrals
Today’s Managing Health Care Costs Number is $580 million Another case of the medical system behaving badly. The former chief financial of...
Rural Critical Access Hospital Fights for Life
Today’s Managing Health Care Costs Number is 25 KQED reported earlier this week about the efforts to keep Mendicino Coast District Hospital ...
Tips for holiday travelers
Are you traveling for the upcoming holiday? Here are some travel tips to help keep you safe and informed. Driving The Washington State Depar...
Schwartz Center Highlights Compassionate Care
I joined about 2000 others at the annual Kenneth Schwartz Center for Compassionate HealthCare dinner last night. Kenneth Schwartz was a he...
Columbia United Providers will notify enrollees about withdrawal from Washington market
Columbia United Providers (CUP) this week informed the Office of the Insurance Commissioner that it is voluntarily withdrawing from the indi...
OIC has saved auto insurance consumers nearly $26 million since 2010
The Office of the Insurance Commissioner's rate decisions have saved auto insurance consumers nearly $26 million in premiums since 2010....
New Cholesterol Medications Could Cost Half as Much as All Primary Care Visits
Today’s Managing Health Care Costs Number is $124 Kevin Schulman and colleagues wrote last month in the New England Journal that the cost ...
Washington wildfire victims: Hire smart when repairing, rebuilding
As Washington consumers begin to rebuild and repair their homes and businesses after this summer's wildfires, we are partnering with the...
Physician and Patient Incentives to Lower Cholesterol Have Tiny Impact
Today’s Managing Health Care Costs Number is 12 University of Pennsylvania researchers published a carefully designed study in JAMA this we...
$25 Cataract Surgery Not Coming to US Soon
Today’s Managing Health Care Costs Number is $25 Nicholas Kristof reported in Sunday’s New York Times on Dr Sanduk Ruit, an ophthalmologist...
The Middle-Aged Consumer in the Coal Mine
Whenever you read a health care article, paper, book, blog post or even tweet, that substitutes the term consumers for patients, and the ter...
Budget Bill Eliminates Overpayment for Hospital Acquired Practices
Today’s Managing Health Care Cost Number is 67% Hidden away in the budget bill passed and signed into law by President Obama last week is a...
High Deductible Health Plans Don't Lead to Price Shopping!
Today’s Managing Health Care Costs Number is $100 million It’s not easy to measure the “true” cost savings from a high deductible health pla...
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