Why RBP Vendor Fees Reward Inflated Bills
A hospital sends a $6,200 bill for a knee MRI. Your reference-based pricing (RBP) vendor reprices it to $1,900. The vendor reports a 69 percent savings....
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A hospital sends a $6,200 bill for a knee MRI. Your reference-based pricing (RBP) vendor reprices it to $1,900. The vendor reports a 69 percent savings....
KFF's 2024 Employer Health Benefits Survey puts the average annual family premium at $25,572, and single coverage at $8,951. With those numbers on the...
A third-party administrator holds something more valuable than its call center scripts or its network discounts. It holds your plan's memory. Who enrolled,...
The cost difference comes less from the health savings account (HSA) itself and more from the high-deductible health plan (HDHP) that an HSA requires....
Most employer health cost strategies share a blind spot. They start after the claim exists. Reference-based pricing renegotiates that claim. Pharmacy...
Employer healthcare costs vary more by geography than by industry. A 300-person trucking firm in Birmingham and a 300-person trucking firm in Seattle can...
A hospital stay in December. The bill lands in February. The old stop-loss carrier says “no” because the policy ended at midnight on December 31. The...
Switching from a fully insured health plan to a level-funded arrangement changes an employer’s healthcare costs in three fundamental ways. You trade a...
Manufacturing has always carried two cost sheets for healthcare: one shaped by collective bargaining and one shaped by the open market. The differences are...
The cost gap between covering full-time and part-time workers is not a numbers game. Federal regulation sets the floor, but the real expense is shaped by...
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