Walmart has been in the business of giving customers what they need when they need it for years, but now the popular retail store has plans to bring their one-stop-shop approach to health care in a major way. If test locations in two rural Georgia towns prove successful, one can expect to start seeing Walmart Health clinics pop up across the country.
Not all RBP is the Same
We began working with a financial services firm in Q4 of 2019. The company had fired their PPO the year prior and transitioned to a Reference-Based Pricing (RBP) approach paying providers a percentage above Medicare allowable rates. Using RBP leverages transparency, defensibility in pricing medical services, and cuts out a lot of the waste inherent in opaque PPO pricing.
COVID -19 -- Key Health Insurance & Benefit News
This blog is an attempt to provide up-to-date information related to coronavirus and its impact on health insurance and benefit plans. Information is evolving rapidly and we will do our best to keep the information as current as possible. This blog will be pinned to the top of our page an updated continuously.
The COVID–19 Conversation: Why Education is Your Best Defense
COVID–19 has taken over. The news. Daily conversations. The workplace. The classroom. Even impacting how we interact. COVID–19 has earned its pandemic status because there is currently no vaccination or treatment for it. However, the best defense against these unknowns and the continued spread is education – getting to know the virus, the risks and actionable steps for prevention.
Precautionary Measures for the Workplace - Novel Coronavirus
This note is being directed to all our employer contacts. Your employees and colleagues will look to you for leadership. We hope you find this information helpful as you communicate with them appropriately about what to do to stay healthy during a pandemic. We believe it's now time for all of us to be more aggressive in our communications to those that look up to us. Simple actions taken everyday can reduce the spread of this infection.
HOW WE DID IT: KEYSTONE TECHNOLOGIES LEADS NATIONAL WEBINAR
Leading the Way
Health care's runaway costs required that we re-build the benefit brokerage model from the ground up to support transformation in an entrenched industry. We’re pushing back on 50 years of hyper-inflating costs which have created immense collateral damage across society: healthcare consumes 30-40% of state budgets, #1 cause for individual bankruptcy is healthcare (72% had insurance), wage stagnation due to 20 years of cost shifting to employees, human suffering, the opioid crisis, etc.
