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Check out our latest blog on long-term care insurance--the benefits and considerations and why this type of coverage should be part of your financial planning conversations. Thanks to advancements in medicine and a focus on wellness, people are living longer than ever before. Proactive planning will be necessary to ensure people can continue to age with independence and on their terms. Click to learn more: https://lnkd.in/eBQuHWCf #planningforthefuture #financialplanning #longtermcareinsurance #castlwm
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On some dimensions, short-term plans provide more comprehensive coverage than #ObamaCare. For consumers buying coverage outside ObamaCare’s enrollment periods, short-term plans provide more comprehensive coverage than ALL ObamaCare plans. #CatoHealth @RealClearHealth
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I concur; it is great to see MSM attempting to shed light on this. They are getting closer to the truth. I know I shouldn't be, but I'm always astounded by just how mobbed up this whole game is. The BUCA-Government-Hospital Chain Complex overcharges so brazenly that intermediaries can work for a percentage of savings or a percentage of billed charges and save a company millions while making unabashed piles of cash for themselves. Yeah, it's that corrupt. It's like having a leak in your roof, and the repair guy charges you a fee based on how much rain COULD have gotten in, without limit. Worse, some players in the game, oddly not MultiPlan's HST, crank this up to absurd levels, charging off the charts with no limits on what that savings fee could be. Rightfully, some of the players in out-of-network negotiation or reference-based pricing place a per-claim cap on how much they can charge for their services. But not all of them ... It's an audacious hustle, a healthcare cartel, where the rules are made by those who profit most, leaving patients and employers to navigate a maze with moving walls.
Finally, main stream media is starting to cover the business of healthcare, and go beyond click-bate style journalism that has plagued the industry. In this article, The New York Times "breaks" a practice that many of us in the industry have been raising alarm bells on for quite some time. Carriers engage these third party vendors like MultiPlan to serve as a "wrap" network in order to "lower costs" for their clients. The story goes, that rather than paying providers very high out of network prices, the carriers can access MultiPlan's negotiated rates with these out of network providers or use MultiPlan's products like Data iSight to negotiate these rates to a lower cost for employers. The problem? As pointed out in the story, big carriers and MultiPlan benefit BIG TIME because of the f-ed up structure of our payment system. Because their fees are based upon the size of the declared "savings" or "discount" MultiPlan and the carrier achieve - (i.e., the difference between the list price and the price paid), some pretty screwy financial incentives come into play. In fact, MultiPlan and the carriers often end up keeping more in "savings fees" than the original price of the bill. I saw this first hand in New Jersey when working with the public employee plan, when Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey would regularly put up flashy slides of the incredible amount of "savings" MultiPlan achieved for the state and its members. They pushed DataiSight heavily and would try to brush away questions about the scenarios when their cut of the "savings" was larger than price eventually paid to the provider. Their response? "Yes this happens, but don't worry, on the whole, the state comes out ahead." Our response. "[BLEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPP!]" In one commercial NJ example highlighted in the story, UnitedHealthcare used MultiPlan to reduce a hospital bill from $152,594 to $7,879, then charged the company a $50,650 processing fee. Another example from Phoenix showed that fees charged by Cigna had risen from around $550,000 in 2016 to $2.6 million in 2019. This is why MultiPlan's annual revenues have climbed to about $1 billion thanks to its embrace of more aggressive approaches to reducing costs. This model not only leaves employers paying their carriers' and companies like MultiPlan a ridiculous amount of unearned cash (often more than the doctors providing the actual service), it leaves patients holding the bag. My advice? If you are an employer and your third party administrator is using MultiPlan or a similar vendor that is enriching themselves to the detriment of your plan, your members and your community of providers, you are extremely vulnerable to a legal action from your employees for your malfeasance in running your plan. Ignorance is no longer a defense. Jeffrey HoganChristine CastelliJulie SelesnickVincent FloresJulia PosackiStacey RichterLeslie KocherBrook WestCora OpsahlAl Lewis 🇺🇦Karen Simonton
Health Insurers’ Lucrative, Little-Known Alliance: 5 Takeaways
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Blanket fee for service Discounts A. Rewards bad doctors (they accept a 30% discount per unit and double the units) B. Punishes good doctors and drives them out of the system because they have to work harder to earn the same living C. Scaling discount as a "value" is easy, compared to scaling quality
Finally, main stream media is starting to cover the business of healthcare, and go beyond click-bate style journalism that has plagued the industry. In this article, The New York Times "breaks" a practice that many of us in the industry have been raising alarm bells on for quite some time. Carriers engage these third party vendors like MultiPlan to serve as a "wrap" network in order to "lower costs" for their clients. The story goes, that rather than paying providers very high out of network prices, the carriers can access MultiPlan's negotiated rates with these out of network providers or use MultiPlan's products like Data iSight to negotiate these rates to a lower cost for employers. The problem? As pointed out in the story, big carriers and MultiPlan benefit BIG TIME because of the f-ed up structure of our payment system. Because their fees are based upon the size of the declared "savings" or "discount" MultiPlan and the carrier achieve - (i.e., the difference between the list price and the price paid), some pretty screwy financial incentives come into play. In fact, MultiPlan and the carriers often end up keeping more in "savings fees" than the original price of the bill. I saw this first hand in New Jersey when working with the public employee plan, when Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey would regularly put up flashy slides of the incredible amount of "savings" MultiPlan achieved for the state and its members. They pushed DataiSight heavily and would try to brush away questions about the scenarios when their cut of the "savings" was larger than price eventually paid to the provider. Their response? "Yes this happens, but don't worry, on the whole, the state comes out ahead." Our response. "[BLEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPP!]" In one commercial NJ example highlighted in the story, UnitedHealthcare used MultiPlan to reduce a hospital bill from $152,594 to $7,879, then charged the company a $50,650 processing fee. Another example from Phoenix showed that fees charged by Cigna had risen from around $550,000 in 2016 to $2.6 million in 2019. This is why MultiPlan's annual revenues have climbed to about $1 billion thanks to its embrace of more aggressive approaches to reducing costs. This model not only leaves employers paying their carriers' and companies like MultiPlan a ridiculous amount of unearned cash (often more than the doctors providing the actual service), it leaves patients holding the bag. My advice? If you are an employer and your third party administrator is using MultiPlan or a similar vendor that is enriching themselves to the detriment of your plan, your members and your community of providers, you are extremely vulnerable to a legal action from your employees for your malfeasance in running your plan. Ignorance is no longer a defense. Jeffrey HoganChristine CastelliJulie SelesnickVincent FloresJulia PosackiStacey RichterLeslie KocherBrook WestCora OpsahlAl Lewis 🇺🇦Karen Simonton
Health Insurers’ Lucrative, Little-Known Alliance: 5 Takeaways
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So glad this is finally getting some attention. Multiplan has turned into a leech on the healthcare system. Not only that, speaking from personal experience, they pray on providers, trying to get them to accept a “global payment agreement,” which is then applied to all future “negotiated rates.“ Many times, when refusing to negotiate with Muliplan, we have found our claims “self adjusted” according to another parties fee schedule, Zelis. Following extensive phone calls with both Zelis and Muliplan, in one instance we were told to “just deal with it.” I wish I was making this up. As a small private practice, what are you to do? Multiplan and Zelis need to be put under greater scrutiny and business practices looked into.
Finally, main stream media is starting to cover the business of healthcare, and go beyond click-bate style journalism that has plagued the industry. In this article, The New York Times "breaks" a practice that many of us in the industry have been raising alarm bells on for quite some time. Carriers engage these third party vendors like MultiPlan to serve as a "wrap" network in order to "lower costs" for their clients. The story goes, that rather than paying providers very high out of network prices, the carriers can access MultiPlan's negotiated rates with these out of network providers or use MultiPlan's products like Data iSight to negotiate these rates to a lower cost for employers. The problem? As pointed out in the story, big carriers and MultiPlan benefit BIG TIME because of the f-ed up structure of our payment system. Because their fees are based upon the size of the declared "savings" or "discount" MultiPlan and the carrier achieve - (i.e., the difference between the list price and the price paid), some pretty screwy financial incentives come into play. In fact, MultiPlan and the carriers often end up keeping more in "savings fees" than the original price of the bill. I saw this first hand in New Jersey when working with the public employee plan, when Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey would regularly put up flashy slides of the incredible amount of "savings" MultiPlan achieved for the state and its members. They pushed DataiSight heavily and would try to brush away questions about the scenarios when their cut of the "savings" was larger than price eventually paid to the provider. Their response? "Yes this happens, but don't worry, on the whole, the state comes out ahead." Our response. "[BLEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPP!]" In one commercial NJ example highlighted in the story, UnitedHealthcare used MultiPlan to reduce a hospital bill from $152,594 to $7,879, then charged the company a $50,650 processing fee. Another example from Phoenix showed that fees charged by Cigna had risen from around $550,000 in 2016 to $2.6 million in 2019. This is why MultiPlan's annual revenues have climbed to about $1 billion thanks to its embrace of more aggressive approaches to reducing costs. This model not only leaves employers paying their carriers' and companies like MultiPlan a ridiculous amount of unearned cash (often more than the doctors providing the actual service), it leaves patients holding the bag. My advice? If you are an employer and your third party administrator is using MultiPlan or a similar vendor that is enriching themselves to the detriment of your plan, your members and your community of providers, you are extremely vulnerable to a legal action from your employees for your malfeasance in running your plan. Ignorance is no longer a defense. Jeffrey HoganChristine CastelliJulie SelesnickVincent FloresJulia PosackiStacey RichterLeslie KocherBrook WestCora OpsahlAl Lewis 🇺🇦Karen Simonton
Health Insurers’ Lucrative, Little-Known Alliance: 5 Takeaways
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Consumers are much more satisfied with #MedicareAdvantage coverage than with employer-based commercial coverage. After all, the typical consumer has choice of 44 plans, can switch plans every year & the higher quality plans get paid more in a self-reinforcing cycle. It’s an incredibly competitive marketplace where only the strongest, highest quality competitors are likely to survive.
Consumers more satisfied with Medicare Advantage than commercial plans
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Knowledge Architect @ Abbvie // informaticist // clinical data expert // knowledge mapper
Why we play finger pointing games against “Big [insert well known industry name here]”, middlemen of healthcare reap benefits and then extract resources from laxity of healthcare regulations. It takes some major screw up like Change Healthcare to expose the underlying cottage industry of middlemen of healthcare information handling and management. You take a step back and realize “do we even need all this?” At what point is using a financial engineering using ton of stealthy contracts and shell entities (the classic “Cayman Islands fund X” type orgs) for extracting subsidized from healthcare actually permitted? It’s as US regulator turns a blind eye when healthcare organizations are using “patient lives under management” as an economic trading cards in broad daylight. But since it doesn’t “directly” affect care, systematic destruction is generally allowed. Personally, I can contribute to systematic awareness and mapping out what I can find out, but everyone needs to dig deep for the next few years.
Finally, main stream media is starting to cover the business of healthcare, and go beyond click-bate style journalism that has plagued the industry. In this article, The New York Times "breaks" a practice that many of us in the industry have been raising alarm bells on for quite some time. Carriers engage these third party vendors like MultiPlan to serve as a "wrap" network in order to "lower costs" for their clients. The story goes, that rather than paying providers very high out of network prices, the carriers can access MultiPlan's negotiated rates with these out of network providers or use MultiPlan's products like Data iSight to negotiate these rates to a lower cost for employers. The problem? As pointed out in the story, big carriers and MultiPlan benefit BIG TIME because of the f-ed up structure of our payment system. Because their fees are based upon the size of the declared "savings" or "discount" MultiPlan and the carrier achieve - (i.e., the difference between the list price and the price paid), some pretty screwy financial incentives come into play. In fact, MultiPlan and the carriers often end up keeping more in "savings fees" than the original price of the bill. I saw this first hand in New Jersey when working with the public employee plan, when Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey would regularly put up flashy slides of the incredible amount of "savings" MultiPlan achieved for the state and its members. They pushed DataiSight heavily and would try to brush away questions about the scenarios when their cut of the "savings" was larger than price eventually paid to the provider. Their response? "Yes this happens, but don't worry, on the whole, the state comes out ahead." Our response. "[BLEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPP!]" In one commercial NJ example highlighted in the story, UnitedHealthcare used MultiPlan to reduce a hospital bill from $152,594 to $7,879, then charged the company a $50,650 processing fee. Another example from Phoenix showed that fees charged by Cigna had risen from around $550,000 in 2016 to $2.6 million in 2019. This is why MultiPlan's annual revenues have climbed to about $1 billion thanks to its embrace of more aggressive approaches to reducing costs. This model not only leaves employers paying their carriers' and companies like MultiPlan a ridiculous amount of unearned cash (often more than the doctors providing the actual service), it leaves patients holding the bag. My advice? If you are an employer and your third party administrator is using MultiPlan or a similar vendor that is enriching themselves to the detriment of your plan, your members and your community of providers, you are extremely vulnerable to a legal action from your employees for your malfeasance in running your plan. Ignorance is no longer a defense. Jeffrey HoganChristine CastelliJulie SelesnickVincent FloresJulia PosackiStacey RichterLeslie KocherBrook WestCora OpsahlAl Lewis 🇺🇦Karen Simonton
Health Insurers’ Lucrative, Little-Known Alliance: 5 Takeaways
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Insurers benefited from and manipulated the Out of Network market. In this exposé, it shows how they increased the cost to employers. One more thing: they would also charge you as a patient a higher fee for the Out of Network providers.
Finally, main stream media is starting to cover the business of healthcare, and go beyond click-bate style journalism that has plagued the industry. In this article, The New York Times "breaks" a practice that many of us in the industry have been raising alarm bells on for quite some time. Carriers engage these third party vendors like MultiPlan to serve as a "wrap" network in order to "lower costs" for their clients. The story goes, that rather than paying providers very high out of network prices, the carriers can access MultiPlan's negotiated rates with these out of network providers or use MultiPlan's products like Data iSight to negotiate these rates to a lower cost for employers. The problem? As pointed out in the story, big carriers and MultiPlan benefit BIG TIME because of the f-ed up structure of our payment system. Because their fees are based upon the size of the declared "savings" or "discount" MultiPlan and the carrier achieve - (i.e., the difference between the list price and the price paid), some pretty screwy financial incentives come into play. In fact, MultiPlan and the carriers often end up keeping more in "savings fees" than the original price of the bill. I saw this first hand in New Jersey when working with the public employee plan, when Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey would regularly put up flashy slides of the incredible amount of "savings" MultiPlan achieved for the state and its members. They pushed DataiSight heavily and would try to brush away questions about the scenarios when their cut of the "savings" was larger than price eventually paid to the provider. Their response? "Yes this happens, but don't worry, on the whole, the state comes out ahead." Our response. "[BLEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPP!]" In one commercial NJ example highlighted in the story, UnitedHealthcare used MultiPlan to reduce a hospital bill from $152,594 to $7,879, then charged the company a $50,650 processing fee. Another example from Phoenix showed that fees charged by Cigna had risen from around $550,000 in 2016 to $2.6 million in 2019. This is why MultiPlan's annual revenues have climbed to about $1 billion thanks to its embrace of more aggressive approaches to reducing costs. This model not only leaves employers paying their carriers' and companies like MultiPlan a ridiculous amount of unearned cash (often more than the doctors providing the actual service), it leaves patients holding the bag. My advice? If you are an employer and your third party administrator is using MultiPlan or a similar vendor that is enriching themselves to the detriment of your plan, your members and your community of providers, you are extremely vulnerable to a legal action from your employees for your malfeasance in running your plan. Ignorance is no longer a defense. Jeffrey HoganChristine CastelliJulie SelesnickVincent FloresJulia PosackiStacey RichterLeslie KocherBrook WestCora OpsahlAl Lewis 🇺🇦Karen Simonton
Health Insurers’ Lucrative, Little-Known Alliance: 5 Takeaways
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CEOs (self funded) - if you think that you can participate in one of the largest legal fraudulent activities in the US, health insurance, without getting scathed, think again! However, if you even began to understand your power in their game, we could turn the entire healthcare system around in the US! Most of your f***ing brokers are wrapped up in this and lining their pockets with your and your employees’ money as well. Patients/employees continue to go into deep debt under your watch and private doctors offices close at alarming rates because of your participation and ignorance. Wake up and team up with the right people! Or, continue to pay $8000 for every MRI that should only be $600 and eventually get sued by your own employees for mishandling their money. This is already been figured out! Call me if you want to be part of the “resistance” and save millions of dollars while you’re at it.
Finally, main stream media is starting to cover the business of healthcare, and go beyond click-bate style journalism that has plagued the industry. In this article, The New York Times "breaks" a practice that many of us in the industry have been raising alarm bells on for quite some time. Carriers engage these third party vendors like MultiPlan to serve as a "wrap" network in order to "lower costs" for their clients. The story goes, that rather than paying providers very high out of network prices, the carriers can access MultiPlan's negotiated rates with these out of network providers or use MultiPlan's products like Data iSight to negotiate these rates to a lower cost for employers. The problem? As pointed out in the story, big carriers and MultiPlan benefit BIG TIME because of the f-ed up structure of our payment system. Because their fees are based upon the size of the declared "savings" or "discount" MultiPlan and the carrier achieve - (i.e., the difference between the list price and the price paid), some pretty screwy financial incentives come into play. In fact, MultiPlan and the carriers often end up keeping more in "savings fees" than the original price of the bill. I saw this first hand in New Jersey when working with the public employee plan, when Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey would regularly put up flashy slides of the incredible amount of "savings" MultiPlan achieved for the state and its members. They pushed DataiSight heavily and would try to brush away questions about the scenarios when their cut of the "savings" was larger than price eventually paid to the provider. Their response? "Yes this happens, but don't worry, on the whole, the state comes out ahead." Our response. "[BLEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPP!]" In one commercial NJ example highlighted in the story, UnitedHealthcare used MultiPlan to reduce a hospital bill from $152,594 to $7,879, then charged the company a $50,650 processing fee. Another example from Phoenix showed that fees charged by Cigna had risen from around $550,000 in 2016 to $2.6 million in 2019. This is why MultiPlan's annual revenues have climbed to about $1 billion thanks to its embrace of more aggressive approaches to reducing costs. This model not only leaves employers paying their carriers' and companies like MultiPlan a ridiculous amount of unearned cash (often more than the doctors providing the actual service), it leaves patients holding the bag. My advice? If you are an employer and your third party administrator is using MultiPlan or a similar vendor that is enriching themselves to the detriment of your plan, your members and your community of providers, you are extremely vulnerable to a legal action from your employees for your malfeasance in running your plan. Ignorance is no longer a defense. Jeffrey HoganChristine CastelliJulie SelesnickVincent FloresJulia PosackiStacey RichterLeslie KocherBrook WestCora OpsahlAl Lewis 🇺🇦Karen Simonton
Health Insurers’ Lucrative, Little-Known Alliance: 5 Takeaways
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