View From the Losing Side of Health Care

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacqueline-dooley/a-view-from-the-losing-si_b_8499202.html

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Everybody’s Getting Smarter About Healthcare Value

http://healthleadersmedia.com/content.cfm?topic=LED&content_id=322450

Risk Management

A raft of new tools that rely on massive amounts of data are helping employers and their employees demystify the healthcare value equation. Even small employers and their employees are benefiting.

Moral Failure And Health Costs: Two Simplistic Spending Narratives

http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2015/10/27/moral-failure-and-health-costs-two-simplistic-spending-narratives/

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Halfway Through My Obamacare Pregnancy

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/10/pregnant-obamacare/410356/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter%20Weekly%20Roundup:%20Healthcare%20Dive%2010-17-2015&utm_term=Healthcare%20Dive%20Weekender

Which procedures are mandatory? Which aren’t? And why is it so hard to know?

Employee insurance deductibles rising faster than earnings

http://www.healthcaredive.com/news/employee-insurance-deductibles-rising-faster-than-earnings/406144/

Employer Health Benefit Survey 2015 - Chart Pack

http://khn.org/news/employers-shift-more-health-costs-to-workers-survey-finds/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=22258664&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8qIzZWOLJZPICNV8ravrXkp2FQ4X6t_1uQrWwXrS6lWkKPHfORC4j8Lwk8WMEq3iZrMQ1

 

Deductible rise shows no signs of slowing, report shows, as employers shift healthcare costs to workers

http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/deductible-rise-shows-no-signs-slowing-report-shows-employers-shift-healthcare-costs-workers?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRouvq3IZKXonjHpfsX57u4rUa6zlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4ITcdkI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQ7LHMbpszbgPUhM%3D

Premiums for job-based medical insurance rose 4 percent in 2015, but employers continued to shift in expenses to workers.

Old-School Health Plans Fading Away

http://healthleadersmedia.com/content.cfm?topic=HEP&content_id=316548##

Earth

A longtime standard-bearer of medical underwriting calls it quits and puts itself on the block. Its fatal flaw? Being out of sync with post-PPACA market realities.

4.4 percent of Americans don’t receive medical care because of cost

http://www.fiercehealthpayer.com/story/44-percent-americans-dont-receive-medical-care-because-cost/2015-09-01

CDC data finds percentage down from 6.9 in 2009, but barriers remain

 

Combatting 3 Big Revenue Cycle Challenges

http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/FIN-318457/Combatting-3-Big-Revenue-Cycle-Challenges

Cash Hospital

A Cone Health revenue cycle executive shares strategies for reducing the health system’s three biggest revenue threats: high-deductible health plans, uninformed patients, and the looming implementation of ICD-10.