August 2019
Our e-newsletter for Enterprise Risk Management, Claim Settlement and Healthcare Solutions.
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The Healthcare Pricing System Isn’t Working. In a recent study released by the Rand Corporation, the authors describe a national healthcare pricing system with vastly different costs depending upon where you live and your insurance benefits. These differences will certainly have an impact on the upcoming political debates. Managers of risk, claim and other corporate benefit functions will benefit from reading and understanding the findings of this study. Read more >>
More Risk, Claim and Healthcare News …
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CMS Announces Price Transparency Proposals. Recently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced important Medicare proposed payment rules that support the transformation of the healthcare system and deliver on providing quality care for patients. View article…
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Hotline Led to Arrest in Massive Capital One Breach. Capital One Financial Corporation set up an email address for tipsters — including “white hat” hackers — to alert the company to potential vulnerabilities in its computer systems. On July 17, the company got a hit to alert it to a breach involving 100 million people. View article...
- AM Best May Begin Scoring Insurer Innovation. AM Best recently announced that it may soon begin scoring insurers’ innovation efforts. AM Best has said their innovation initiative will score companies and assign a published innovation assessment, and will explicitly consider whether a company’s innovation efforts have had a demonstrable impact on its long-term financial strength. View article...
- Rising Health Insurance Deductibles Fuel Middle-Class Anger and Resentment. Soaring deductibles and medical bills are pushing millions of American families to the breaking point, fueling an affordability crisis that is pulling in middle-class households with health insurance as well as the poor and uninsured. View article...
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