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Will price transparency drive up health care costs?
Insurance highlights from Covering Health
Companies rethink roles in the new health economy
Five Takeaways from the National Transparency Summit
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Hospital Price Transparency Challenge
Intermountain Healthcare extends data-driven approach to reducing costs
Unaccountable, by Marty Makary, M.D.
Choosing Wisely: How to avoid unnecessary tests and treatments, Consumer Reports
Choosing Wisely: An Initiative to Improve the Quality and Safety of Health Care
Flip the Clinic consumer experience
Pros and Cons of Concierge Medicine
Impact of hospital consolidation
Mass. health care delivery system map
Report care on state price transparency laws
The Effects of Price Transparency Regulation on Prices in the Healthcare Industry
Good examples of why we should talk about transparency in health care costs
Compare prices at N.Y. hospitals: Look up procedures, compare costs, charges
Transparency: Big Data Sexy and Pricey
National Summit on Health Care Price, Cost and Quality Transparency
Transparency is key to free-market cost control
High Deductibles Fuel New Worries of Health-Law Sticker Shock
On Jan. 1, many formerly uninsured Americans will have health insurance coverage and thus will be prepared to engage the health system.
But the newly insured will be like most Americans using the health care system today: They will lack the information they need about the cost of health care services and about how much of the total cost is their responsibility.
And, like most Americans, many of the newly insured will have high-deductible health plans and thus may face sticker shock when they visit and physician or hospital and learn how much they have to pay out of pocket until they reach their deductible.
This lack of price transparency is widespread in the U.S. health care system. Yet, for years, health insurers and employers have been shifting the responsibility to pay for care to consumers and employees. Clearly there is a pressing need for information on the cost of care.
AHCJ will explore these issues during a one-hour webcast on price transparency on Dec. 12 at 1 p.m. Eastern (10 a.m. Pacific).
Speakers:
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Suzanne Delbanco, Ph.D., executive director of the Catalyst for Payment Reform in San Francisco
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Katherine Hempstead, Ph.D., senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, N.J.
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Moderator: Joseph Burns, AHCJ topic leader on health insurance
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Suzanne F. Delbanco
Katherine Hempstead
Joseph Burns