Employer health plans have new requirements due to provisions from The Consolidated Appropriations Act. The continual rise of health care costs have sparked the bi-partisan price transparency regulations for health care providers, third-party administrators, and...
A lot has happened over the past two years in relation to price transparency; executive and Congressional actions have led to new federal rules and regulations for health systems, benefit administrators, and plan sponsors. These rules have promise to make public...
There’s been a lot of talk about how the health care landscape is shifting due to new federal price transparency rules, but the key to those changes has been advocacy from the business community. Transparency will create better information for consumers and...
The Alliance and Business Health Care Group (BHCG) hosted a webinar with several content experts to discuss employee communication strategies, policy and procedures, and other employer considerations regarding COVID-19 vaccination. This is a recap of the virtual...
The National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions (NAHPC) hosted a great webinar detailing the rights and responsibilities of Plan Sponsors as fiduciaries. To help better educate our members on this important topic, we’ve summarized our key takeaways for...
Health care affordability is gaining steam as a topic not just on the presidential debate stage but also among state and federal policy makers. Researchers at Altarum, a nonprofit health care consulting group, decided to dig into the relationship between the...
In October, my colleague John Zordani provided an outline of the leading Democratic presidential candidates’ positions on health care reform. While we still don’t know who the Democratic nominee for President will be, President Trump is expected to represent the...
Governor Tony Evers created the Governor’s Task Force on Prescription Drug Pricing in response to a growing concern over rising drug prices. In announcing the task force, the Governor said, “Picking up a medication shouldn’t break the bank, but it often does for...
Health care is already looming large as an issue in the upcoming 2020 presidential election. The broad field of Democratic presidential candidates is advancing a full range of policy proposals, from single-payer to a public option to public-private hybrids. The...
Cathy Mahaffey is CEO of the non-profit Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative, Wisconsin’s largest individual market carrier serving 20 counties in Eastern Wisconsin. If you follow health policy or political news, you may have heard mention of “surprise bills,” a...
