The Business Council Supports Transparency of Healthcare Costs

An op-ed in Sunday’s New York Times does a very good job in illustrating the wide disparity in what health insurers pay for the same procedure at different hospitals, and what different insurers pay for the same procedure at the same hospital.
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Medicaid AWOL from budget debate

This op-ed comes to us from E.J McMahon, who is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute's Empire Center for New York State policy. It is was printed in Newsday Over the next few days, as Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and the legislature negotiate the final details of a state budget for f
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A message from The Employer Alliance for Affordable Health Care

It is Time to Unmask Physician Pricing The problem of “surprise” bills by non-participating physicians providing out-of-network services as well as excessive billing for emergency room services has been an ongoing and growing one for years. To “fix” the problem:  Consumers
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The cost savings potential for health plans and employers are staggering

“The cost savings potential for health plans and employers are staggering,” said Bobbi Coluni, senior director, Thomson Reuters and author of the paper. “To realize this potential, however, consumers and employers need access to price transparency.” Key finding
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Business Council: New Yorkers should know if a doctor is “in network” before they get the bill

Our members rank the cost of health insurance coverage as the number one challenge for businesses and their employees. Premiums are among the most expensive in the nation due to over $ 4 billion in health insurance taxes and fees as well as the dozens of mandates pushed by the special
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You should know your health care costs before you buy

Our members rank the cost of health insurance coverage as the number one challenge for business and their employees. Too often, we are deprived of making educated decisions about our health care because we simply do not know the costs of the medical services we require. If restaurants
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Healthcare costs: surprise billing must end

The Business Council believes there must be more transparency on health care costs.  Patients are too often blind-sided by exorbitant medical fees. Take a look at this humorous video from whatstherealcost.org 45 Seconds to share from WTRC Films on Vimeo.
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Health Plan Association welcomes report on doctors’ billing abuse

The following is a statement from Paul F. Macielak, president & CEO of the New York Health Plan Association. “The report from the Department of Financial Services shines a bright light on the ongoing problem of ‘surprise’ bills by non-participating physicians providing out-
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Cuomo on the high cost of health insurance

The following is part of an email sent out last evening by Governor Cuomo. As the high cost of health care continues to be one of  our members’ most pressing concerns we thought we would share with you the Governor’s thoughts. “Governor Cuomo knows that the high cos
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Digital records may not cut health costs, study cautions

Costly Image-Taking Tests Sharply Increase Steve Lohr of The New York Times writes about a study which suggests that although computerized patient records promise billions of dollars in savings, health care costs are not expected to go down. Why? Because those same computerized record
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