Employer-provider direct contracting refers to a process by which employers negotiate directly with providers and set transparent prices for procedures and medications, without TPAs, to avoid administrative obfuscation and distorted incentives.
Read more at Health Affairs: Employer-Provider Direct Contracting: Practice And Policy
The nonprofit organization, Undue Medical Debt’s mission is purchasing medical debt and retiring it for the benefit of millions of Americans saddled with medical debt. The firm partners with hospitals, local governments, debt collectors and donors to buy medical debt for pennies on the dollar. In its latest endeavor, the organization has arranged with a large debt trader to buy $30 billion worth of debt for 20 million Americans
Many of my neighbors have Ring doorbell cameras to monitor the comings and goings of people around their property. Increasingly people with loved ones in nursing homes are installing cameras to monitor the care of their family members.
Price discrimination makes many of the brand name drugs Americans buy more expensive than need be. Another federal action that runs the risk of driving up the drug costs is tariffs.