What the status quo apologists and the naysayers said was impossible, is a reality: Emergency services with transparent pricing and NO surprise bills! “Always staffed with board-certified physicians, ICU- and ER-trained nurses, X-ray technologists and helpful administrative personnel, The Emergency …
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Transparent Pricing for Medical Emergencies | The Emergency Center
What the status quo apologists and the naysayers said was impossible, is a reality: Emergency services with transparent pricing and NO surprise bills! “Always staffed with board-certified physicians, ICU- and ER-trained nurses, X-ray technologists and helpful administrative personnel, The Emergency …
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Jay Kempton: An Unorthodox Benefits Solution – Healthcare Americana
Healthcare Americana, Chris is joined by Jay Kempton of The Kempton Group and co-founder of the Free Market Medical Association (FMMA). Chris and Jay discuss novel ways of implementing employee benefits, why there are barriers to change, and the upcoming …
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More Patients Turning to ‘Direct Primary Care’ | Medscape
Christine Lehmann, MA February 11, 2020 Having quick access to a primary care doctor 24/7 is very appealing to Mick Lowderman, 56, who is married with two children, ages 10 and 8. He pays a monthly membership fee to AtlasMD, …
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U.S. Healthcare: A Case Study of What Happens When “Insurance” Supplants Price-Transparent Markets
By Robert Nelson, MD Our health insurance-based third-party payer protocols have pernicious and nefarious economic consequences on the cost of medical care; and in many ways has diminished access due to regulatory complexities that accompany these interventions. The undeniable result …
Why Value-based Payment Methods Won’t Fix Healthcare
I’ve read several posts today on so called “Value-based payment” strategies and I couldn’t resist adding my 2-cents. VBP can’t fix these fundamental problems because it is still based on a price-opaque shell game I like to call Fee-for-Coding, which …
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Surprise Medical Bills: We Know the Cure…Few Are Using it
This whole issue of “surprise bills” is a symptom of a more pernicious economic disease which has been driving prices in healthcare for decades; that being, a lack on discoverable, actionable meaningful prices for bundled medical services. Moreover, the lack …
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Sleep Medicine Specialist to Provide Direct Pay Video Consults to Patients in Georgia and South Carolina
For the past year I have grown increasingly frustrated as our health care system has valued payer over patient, time and time again. Even our hospital administrators seem immune to care and compassion – the bedrock of my practice. My …
