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🚨 @mcuban, one of the leading healthcare transformational disruptors in the country, will be the featured speaker at the HBCH Summer Forum in August! 🚨
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The Summer Forum is a working conference where Houston-area employers arrive ready to act. Every session is built around real-world case studies, actionable frameworks, and peer learning. This year's forum focuses on the wellness pivot towards alternative purchasing strategies.
“...The employers in our coalition believe transparency is essential, and by working together, we can continue to reduce preventable harm and make care safer for everyone.”
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In our opaque health care system, neither patients nor employer health plans really know what anything costs.
Bipartisan price transparency legislation would significantly reduce health expenditures, including those of employer health plans.
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“This latest round of the The Leapfrog Group Hospital Safety Grade shows encouraging progress in patient safety nationwide. The employers in our coalition believe transparency is essential, and by working together, we can continue to reduce preventable harm & make care safer..."
"If we want to have an honest conversation about affordability, we need to get far tougher when it comes to hospital monopolies."
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There’s a good chance that when you think about health care, price transparency isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. If you’re like most Texans, you pay your insurance and copay, and the insurance company pays the rest.
What else do you need to know?
Plenty.
Executive Director Chris Skisak recently contributed an Op Ed to the @dallasnews about health care price transparency.
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Previous RAND studies show employers pay 2-5 times the Medicare rate for the same service with wide variation in local markets. Houston results from RAND 5.0 showed Houston hospital pricing ranged from 128% to 368% of Medicare.
"Year over year HBCH brings new approaches to healthcare benefits to the Houston market. I have used information from other employers, consultants, and service providers to evaluate and improve my company’s health plan thanks to HBCH resources."
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‼️ NEW // @mcuban, one of the leading healthcare transformational disruptors in the country, will be the featured speaker at the HBCH Summer Forum in August! ‼️
The Summer Forum is a two-day working conference where Houston-area employers arrive ready to act. This year's forum focuses on the BIG health and wellness pivot towards alternative purchasing strategies.
conference.houstonbch.org/?u…
In our opaque health care system, neither patients nor employer health plans really know what anything costs.
Bipartisan price transparency legislation would significantly reduce health expenditures, including those of employer health plans.
houstonchronicle.com/opinion…
Wage growth for workers at businesses experiencing an increase in employee health insurance costs would have been about one percentage point higher, on average...