by peg | Mar 24, 2020 | Healthcare Cost Containment
According to a recent news article by medicaleconomics.com, the US spends approximately $1.3 Trillion more on healthcare than the average country. The average being approximately 10.6 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP). In order to approach this reduced...
by peg | Mar 10, 2020 | Healthcare Cost Containment
According to a recent article by Time magazine, Americans have the highest healthcare spending per person and the lowest life expectancy out of the six developed nations studied. In an effort to see where the money goes, the article claims that in a privatized...
by peg | Feb 26, 2020 | Healthcare Cost Containment, Healthcare Services
As reported by Healio, overall fitness is more important than BMI. A recent study published in Diabetes Care found that diabetes patients that were physically fit had a lower mortality rate regardless of BMI. During the study, mortality rate was accessed over a...
by peg | Feb 9, 2020 | Healthcare Cost Containment
According to Revcycle Intelligence, administrative expenditures for healthcare were over $812 billion in 2017, accounting for over one-third of costs, according to this study by the Annals of Internal Medicine. The high administrative costs were attributed to...
by peg | Jan 23, 2020 | Healthcare Cost Containment, Healthcare Services
In a recent Consumer Reports article, the magazine reports that 30% of those taking a prescription drug reported a price increase in 2019. Why is this happening? A variety of factors, but here are a few: There are currently no federal regulations that limit drug...
by peg | Jun 21, 2018 | Healthcare Cost Containment
Plan Design Enhancement The Plan Design Enhancement provides a review of claims on health plan to determine strategies to reduce claims costs incurred by plan and plan beneficiaries. Value Proposition: Health plan saves $1,500 to $3,500 per plan beneficiary per year....
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