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Overbilling and upcoding by hospitals...
If 85% of hospital bills for Medicare have upcharging errors, imagine how many upcharges are on your...
Here’s how cities and states can slash...
Medxoom is optimizing health plan infrastructure by unifying the health benefits experience. We make...
Medxoom Releases Universal Engagement...
ATLANTA, GA --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Medxoom, the Atlanta-based B2B Health Benefits Platform, announced...
UnitedHealth accused of bilking employer...
Medxoom provides a superior member experience for many employer health plans that use direct...
Most Coronavirus Tests Cost About $100....
Prices vary in every city for the same medical procedure, even in a pandemic. Medxoom can help...
How to save 10-30% on company healthcare...
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Private-Equity Firms Squeeze Hospital...
Surprise billing has been on the rise since early 2010. When patients began inquiring about their...
Why Your Health Insurer Doesn’t Care...
Patients believe their insurers are fighting on their behalf for the best prices with hospitals, but...
Medxoom at the SIIA Executive Forum
We’re looking forward to learning and sharing actionable ideas at the upcoming Self-Insured Health...
Back Surgery Saved Him from Paralysis....
We find another example of a patient expierencing surprise billing after reciving treatment at a...
Surprise Medical Bills Are On The Rise,...
Unsurprisingly, a new study from Stanford reports that surprise billing is on the rise nationwide....
Five Embarrassingly Easy Ways to Fix...
The New York Post has detailed five easy steps our healthcare industry needs to take in order to fix...
Which Was Worse: The Bachelor Party...
Here is another tale of a patient incurring a surprise bill after their visit to an ER. In this...
The U.S. Can Slash Health-Care Costs 75%...
MarketWatch details two policy changes that could end up saving “the United States … $2.4...
Medxoom at the HCAA 2020 Executive Forum
We’re looking forward to learning and sharing actionable ideas at the upcoming HCAA Executive...
They Got Estimates Before Surgery —...
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Health Care is Gobbling Up Your Wages
A recent report highlights U.S. household incomes have barely changed over the past 20 years on an...
CMS Proposes Hospitals Post Online...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) relayed a recent proposal from the Trump...
As Healthcare Prices are Revealed,...
A recent study by RAND Corp. has shown large variances in hospital prices and quality for all...
Medicare Knows About $30 Billion in...
Health insurers overcharging Medicare Advantage plan members for medical procedures, and therefore...
Why the Health Care System Is Incapable...
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The High Price of Hospital Care
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How Summit County residents, Fed Up with...
The employers and people of Summit County in Colorado banded together to lower the prices at their...
How Paying Your Doctor in Cash Could...
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Hospitals Accused Of Paying Doctors...
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Report: Health Care Price Variation...
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Hospitals Are Swimming In Cash
Axios has found that hospital admissions, surgeries, and other procedures have been flat, but that...
Many Hospitals Charge Double or Even...
Employees on company health insurance plans typically pay 2.5 to 3X what Medicare pays for the same...
Health Insurance Costs Surpass $20,000...
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Revealing the Secret Prices Insurers Pay...
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Putting A Face To Surprise Bills
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Price transparency is Key to a...
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Former HMA CEO to Pay $3.5 million Over...
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It Cost What? Medical Pricing Shrouded...
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Her insurer’s Price Tool Estimated...
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Trump’s War On Middlemen Might Reach...
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HHS Secretary Calls on Employers to...
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Surgeons, Hospital Owner Convicted in...
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Former GE CEO Jeff Immelt: To Combat...
As healthcare costs continue to rise for employers, former GE CEO Jeff Immelt argues that one of the...
Trump Signs Executive Order to Compel...
The Trump Administration took a big step toward giving people more transparency for their hospital...
Health Plans For State Employees Use...
The typical self-funded employer health plan using a BUCA (Blue, United, Cigna, Aetna) PPO is paying...
Senators Call for Disclosure of Perks...
As follow up to a previously posted article, U.S. Senators are proposing new laws that would require...
Trump Administration Preparing Executive...
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Keeping Secrets: How a Common Blood Test...
Another example of big price discrepancies in healthcare costs that are unimaginable in other...
Cat Bites The Hand That Feeds; Hospital...
Good Samaritan Jeannette Parker, trying to help a stray kitten, got bitten, and ended up as another...
TED Talk: What if all US health care...
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Insurers Hand Out Cash and Gifts To Sway...
All employers should know how their outside benefits broker is compensated. Is their income based...
Hospitals are Making a Lot of Money on...
Hospitals are making more money than ever, as evidenced by a recent study revealing the practice of...
Hospital Price Growth Driving Healthcare...
The price of hospital care — the largest single component of healthcare costs — continues to...
Hospital Prices Outgrew Physician Prices...
Recent research published in Health Affairs states that “between 2007 and 2014, the growth of...
Verma: CMS intends to disrupt healthcare...
CMS Administrator, Seema Verma, believes the current lack of information available for patients...
Blum Telehealth Teams with Medxoom to...
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Think Drug Costs Are Bad? Try Hospital...
Higher drug and health care pricing is in the news frequently, with drug pricing getting more press...
Trump Seeks Action To Stop Surprise...
The issue of surprise medical billing and price transparency in health care have reached The White...
Zuckerberg Hospital Rolls Back $20,243...
Another surprise-billing story gained national attention, this time in San Francisco. The bill,...
Why Mobile Should Be a Part of your...
HR professionals are familiar with the difficulties of aggregating and communicating information...
The Real Reason Hospitals are So...
TruTV’s Adam Ruin Everything show discussed the rising costs of health care in America today. The...
How Hospitals Got Richer Off Obamacare
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Emergency Room Bills This Year. Here’s...
Vox analyzed 1,182 hospital bills from 2018 and came away some insights that we’ve been discussing...
When Consumers Pick up the Tab, Health...
“Hospitals are like any other business trying to make a profit; they can ask more from a company...
Investigation of Generic ‘Cartel’...
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My ER Experience and the Unsustainable...
A patient explains his trip to the ER and the $23,000 in charges he incurred for his two hour trip....
To Patients’ Surprise, a Visit to...
Patients continue to experience surprise excessive billing, something discussed a few weeks ago....
When Hospitals Merge, Prices can...
Hospitals usually justify mergers claiming it will help lower healthcare costs for patients, but...
Doctors Are Fed Up With Being Turned...
More insurers and employers are shifting the ever increasing cost of healthcare onto their workers...
A Patient Complained About The Cost Of...
Increasing healthcare costs are causing both patients and doctors to lose trust in the United States...
Employees Face ‘Ridiculous’ Price...
The absence of comparison shopping tools tied directly to an employee’s health plan leads to...
A $48,329 Allergy Test Is A Lot Of...
As healthcare costs continue to rise and remain unknown prior to service, patients are still left in...
Anatomy of an Insane Health Care Billing...
The lack of transparency in the industry continues. Benefits broker Carl Schuessler, inspired by his...
Behind Your Rising Health-Care Bills
Without transparency in the healthcare industry or regulation around pricing, healthcare costs are...
A Tough Negotiator Proved Employers...
As healthcare costs continue to rise, some are pushing back against the industry standards, proving...
Sticker Shock Jolts Oklahoma Patient
Yet another example of hospital patients experiencing excessive billing following a procedure where...
Why Hospital Monopolies Are What’s...
This article highlights growing hospital monopolies as a major contributor to the rising cost of...
Spending on Health Insurance Plans Has...
Rising healthcare costs are a well-known issue in the U.S. healthcare industry, but the reasoning...
Why a Patient Paid a $285 Copay for a...
Healthcare costs vary not just across hospitals, doctors, and procedures, but prescription costs as...
Why Americans Spend So Much on Health...
“The U.S. spends more per capita on health care than any other developed nation. It will soon...
Guess Who’s Getting Richer as your...
Profits are soaring for Health Insurers and profit projections are only increasing. Wall Street...
Wage Gap Between Hospital Executives and...
Healthcare inflation continues year after year with job, industry, and population growth. We would...
His $109K Heart Attack Bill Is Now Down...
Healthcare patients continue to experience excessive billing from hospitals, including Surprise...
What Does Knee Surgery Cost? Few Know,...
This article exudes exactly the problem we’re solving through Medxoom’s proprietary shopping and...
