Summary: “I must admit that I chose to be uninsured,” C. wrote to me. “My work does not provide health insurance and I looked into nystateofhealth.ny.gov during…
Summary: “Offering women money, paid time off, or other incentives to undergo mammography screening is ‘ethically troubling,’ contends the author of a viewpoint published in the September 8…
Summary: In our project crowdsourcing healthcare prices in partnership with MedPage Today, we were asking primarily for cash or self-pay prices — but one of the…
Summary: “Quality measures are good, right? We all want our doctors and hospitals to follow best practices and be held to them,” writes Joanne Kenen, health editor…
This post appeared originally in MedPage Today, where I wrote it as part of our pricing transparency partnership with MedPage Today. Re-posted with permission. Summary: “I…
Summary: “As options for cancer patients become increasingly complicated, and expensive, the most influential source for U.S. oncology treatment guidelines will for the first time offer a…
Summary: “Most British people have never had to think about paying for medical procedures. But what would happen if they did? I decided to find out by…
2011 Google AdWords Income. Source: Wordstream 2011 Google AdWords Income. Source: WordstreamSummary: Google Insurance Co.? It might be right around the corner. Google has been tinkering with…
Summary: The Affordable Care Act’s health insurance subsidies to low-income people will continue, the Supreme Court ruled. In a much-anticipated ruling on the challenge to the law,…
Summary: A friend told us the other day that the all payer claims database, also known as an APCD, is the answer to health cost transparency. By…
