I’ve decided to revisit this issue because Brian Thompson, the CEO of a health insurance company, was recently murdered. And the alleged assailant was a privileged young man who apparently thinks such businesse
Like the first graph, the graph below shows monthly Silver Plan premiums for a 40 year old in the 10HIGHESTACA Insurance Exchange Areas. Again the labels at right show those market areas occur over multiple geographic regions. The green bar at bottom of the graph shows the average premium wh...
Both AT&T incidents pale in comparison with a massive data breach earlier this year at UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s biggest health insurance and health provider conglomerate. According tocongressional testimony by UnitedHealth Chief Executive Andrew Wittyand...
These organizations were specifically excluded from insurance regulation and allowed to operate as not-for-profits. They evolved over the years, taking subscriber premiums and paying out claims. They took on all subscribers without regard to pre-existing conditions, as required by their not-for-profi...
Then there’s the question: “Why did legislators want TM to get into health insurance?”If they wanted to cover more people, expanding Medicaid would have been a lot faster, far less expensive, and much more impactful. Finally,(somewhat) new WC bill review companyaccuro solutions acquired ...
Although it is not reimbursable by insurance, it offers you information unavailable any other way. It has recently had a profound benefit for one of my patients. Now just a few words about open heart surgery and stents. I know you know someone who has had open-heart surgery and probably ...
7 In the context of employees’ health insurance choices in Oregon, Abaluck and Gruber (2016) find that access to a decision support tool had no significant effect on plan choices, while restricting employees' choice sets had a minor impact on their forgone savings. Kling et al. (2012) ...
Administrative costs –At least 7% of health care expenditures are estimated to go toward for the administrative costs of government health care programs and the net cost of private insurance (e.g. administrative costs, reserves, taxes, profits/losses). Some argue that the mixed public-private sy...
Why is our healthcare so expensive: is it providers and hospitals fees; the cost of providing healthcare by the providers and hospitals; insurance company (commercial and government) overhead; the expense of the consumables for providing healthcare e.g. syringes, drugs, instruments; defensive med...
sports, consumer goods and trade, building, insurance, transportation, banking, financial services, tourism, and government benefit and implement big data technologies [101]. Manufacturing industries also need the resource management process long term profitability identification through a decision support ...