5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (206+ words) When prices are visible, providers must justify them through enhanced offerings or experience. Hospitals often have higher overhead costs than other providers, which makes routine services such as MRIs or X-rays more expensive than the same services at independent radiology…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (830+ words) Every year Jim Evans faces the challenge of keeping health care costs reasonable for the more than 400 teachers, custodians and bus drivers at Concord Community Schools. Evans, the chief financial officer for the Northern Indiana school district is trying something…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (653+ words) Private health insurers should face minimum coverage standards, Medicare rebates should be overhauled and governments should publish how long patients wait just to see a public hospital specialist, according to the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. The RACS laid out…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1599+ words) MediAsas’ numerous copayments, some of which breach BNM rules, show a misplaced burden on consumers to control medical inflation, even though it’s not our fault when we fall sick. Guarantee premiums to prove that MediAsas will be affordable in 30 years....

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (189+ words) A health care advocacy group on Thursday sued the American Medical Association in an effort to get more transparency over the association’s billing codes, which guide billions of dollars in health care payments. PatientRightsAdvocate.org hopes to republish the codes…...

4+ week, 16+ hour ago   (244+ words) When payors consider only the cost of the medication and not the cost and risk to the patient, doctor, and healthcare system, the irony is that not only is this terrible for patient health, it can be more costly in…...