Hidden no more. The Employers’ Forum of Indiana (EFI) is giving people a look behind the curtain at the reality of hospital costs in the United States.
What began as the first hospital price transparency study in the U.S., commissioned by EFI and conducted by RAND Corporation back in 2017, eventually became the foundation for the Employer Hospital Price Transparency Project.
Starting in July 2022, the nation’s three largest credit bureaus – Equifax, Experian and TransUnion – will be removing nearly 70% of medical debt in collections accounts from credit reports.
On April 12, 2022, True Captive Insurance will be hosting The Future of Business & Benefits – St. Louis event at Busch Stadium, where local business leaders will discuss employee healthcare trends, self-funding health plans and how to gain control of healthcare spend.
Companies enhancing patient access to care and lowering patient costs all while slashing their own costs? That’s what earns Health Plan Hero status.
Faced once again with an increase in health plan costs, Schaefer Autobody knew they needed a change. They had grown more and more frustrated with their inability to control their healthcare spend and continue to provide great benefits to their team. Another 9% increase, despite two years of declining healthcare expenditures, just wasn’t going to cut it.
It turns out that it’s far safer to jump out of an airplane than to access healthcare in the U.S. According to recent study by Johns Hopkins, more than 250,000 people in the United States die every year due to medical mistakes, making it the third-leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer.
