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The 2020 law, which allows for price transparency in medical billing, has been largely successful in protecting consumers, though gaps remain, say stakeholders.

With health care spending expected to increase 10% in the next three years, the case for reference-based pricing is growing, while employers with at least 100 employees should also be looking at self-funding.

For benefits professionals, administering employer sponsored health plans and providing employee participants with access to affordable, quality health care is one of the greatest economic challenges of today — and the foreseeable future.

Lindsay Barnard and Duke Janssen discuss what's important to employers and employees in terms of HSAs and LSAs.

How health insurers hide behind HIPAA in sharing any meaningful claims data with you about your employees while farming every imaginable fact about all plan members.

By evaluating fit and asking the right questions to properly implement a narrow network plan, your organization can contain costs while offering your employees and their families the health care they need.

For hospitals, the top three drivers of positive sentiment were staff, bedside manner, and competence of the physician.

"Hospitals have full discretion to set their chargemaster prices, which, on average, are more than four times the actual cost of care delivery," the Health Affairs study says.