Patients with comprehensive private health insurance coverage often do not pay full charges because insurance companies negotiate better payment rates for their policy holders. For the consumer shopping for healthcare, the first challenge is the right health plan and coverage, ...
Transparency in healthcare: it’s time
transparency | noun | the quality of being done in an open way without secrets We live in a world where we’ve come to expect answers to all our questions with a quick Google search. Want to find a nearby walk-in clinic? Wondering what the rash on your arm might be? The Internet ...
Data Stories are Told Over Years, Not Minutes
You recall when the “Bitter Pill” story came out? That was in February 2013, just over a year ago. At the time I wrote about “lighting the dark corners of health information” saying that some transparency, any transparency, is a really good place to start. Since then, we’ve seen ...