President Trump Can Act Now To Make Healthcare Affordable
The Trump administration can immediately take these two price transparency administrative actions to reduce costs and improve affordability.
The Price is Wrong: We Need to Solve the Healthcare Insurance Transparency Crisis
In the U.S., many people still struggle to find care, book an appointment, confirm coverage, or get a clear answer on pricing. The impact goes beyond inconvenience, contributing to delayed diagnoses, increased anxiety, and financial stress that harms both patients and the healthcare system.
The Hidden Administrative Tasks Draining Small Practices
Small practices play a critical role in healthcare delivery, but they cannot continue to absorb ever-increasing administrative demands without consequences.
A Healthcare System’s Moral Bankruptcy Goes Viral
Brian Thompson's murder was chilling, but the social media response of this tragedy was equally shocking, if eye-opening. It shows a massive collapse of public trust in our healthcare system, a system so broken that it bankrupts families, denies life-saving care, and treats death as an acceptable cost of doing business.
Startup Vericred wants to do something about those surprise medical bills
Vericred, a healthcare data services startup based in New York City, is now offering a provider-network notification service.
CIOs told to worry, be happy at CHIME
John Jacobs, co-founder and chief creative optimist of apparel company Life is Good, closed out CHIME16 with an uplifting message for healthcare CIOs. Across the hall, an FBI cybersecurity expert gave a stern warning.
Health insurance data startup Vericred closes $3.1M seed round
New York City-based Vericred has grown beyond its original mission of streamlining provider credentialing for health plans. Now, it helps potential insurance customers determine whether their physicians participate in specific payer networks.
The Mechanics of a More Connected Healthcare Ecosystem [Video]
Arbiter’s Anjali Jameson on hospital and payer alignment.
$10M infusion to allow OpenNotes to reach 50 million people
OpenNotes, once an academic experiment to see if physicians would accept patients viewing encounter notes and if patients could decipher the medicalese, is getting ready to scale, thanks to a large donation.
Death and complication rates for many doctors have now been calculated and put in one spot – the Surgeon Scorecard
Many people opting for a surgical procedure look to make sure the hospital is considered good, but statics for each doctor within that hospital can vary greatly.
From statehouses to ivory towers: the case for healthcare transparency (MedCity ENGAGE)
Everyone likes healthcare transparency. But what KIND of transparency?
MedCity ENGAGE: How Can Healthcare Get The Right Information to the Patient
When it comes to healthcare transparency, it’s all about the fine print. Everyone is offering it, but is the information empowering, accurate, helpful and what healthcare consumers actually want (and need)? Hear about the evolution of transparency and what’s coming next – not only from the healthcare industry, but from policymakers across the country […]
Balancing the Role of Physicians and AI [Video]
At the ViVE conference in LA, Smarter Technologies Chief Medical Officer Ruben Amarasingham MD talked with Katie Adams about the company's larger goals for AI: to improve the accuracy of data and make healthcare less burdensome for physicians and clinicians.
Vitals names new CEO
Vitals, which provides pricing transparency and reviews of physicians, named Heyward Donigan as its new CEO, replacing Mitch Rothschild, while appointing former Priceline Group CEO Jeffrey Boyd to adviser and board director. Donigan was previously CEO of ValueOptions, a health improvement company that specializes in mental and emotional well-being and recovery. There, she helped drive […]
Medicare’s Open Payments off to a murky start
While some organizations and advocates say the long-anticipated arrival of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s Open Payments is an important milestone in healthcare transparency, the reaction around the web was thoroughly mixed, chiefly calling out the system’s clunkiness that was tough to navigate even for healthcare experts. Part of the ACA’s Sunshine Act, Open Payments […]
Two healthcare leaders become patients and are enraged by the billing bureaucracy
There is nothing like a dose of reality to change your perspective. This is why the smartest entrepreneurs talk to customers before launching a new product or service. This is why all hospital CEOs and medical device executives should be a patient at a hospital on a regular basis. The transformation after this firsthand experience […]
Sunshine Act update via Twitter Q&A: “Data will be easy to misinterpret without context”
In case you missed it, we talked to Dr. Richard Reiling to get a physician’s perspective on the Sunshine Act. Dr. Reiling currently serves on the board of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education and is a member of the American Medical Association...
Will knowing what a hospital charges actually help patients? Not everyone’s convinced
Some heart surgeries have become so common — the angioplasty, for example, to open clogged arteries — you might think the charge for it wouldn’t vary much from hospital to hospital. You might assume the same about hip or knee replacements, which now hold the top spot in this country as the reason for overnight […]