January 2024

Health Plans Must Expand Price Comparison Tool for 2024 Beginning in 2024, group health plans and health insurance issuers must expand the internet-based price comparison tool available to participants, beneficiaries, and enrollees to include all covered items, services, and drugs. This tool aims to provide consumers with real-time estimates of Read more…

Volume 34

Contents   15 Years and Counting – Congratulations Brant!   Rural Hospitals Declaring Their Independence   Join us for Don’t Go It Alone: Direct Contracting and Custom Networks Change the Game   Have you seen this person?   15 Years and Counting- Congratulations Brant HealthSure CEO Brant Couch celebrated his Read more…

Volume 33

Contents   It’s Time to Take (Rural) Matters into Your Own Hands!   Phishing Can Get You Hooked!   Congratulations to Peterson Regional Medical Center   Have you seen this person?   It’s Time to Take (Rural) Matters into Your Own Hands! Learn from big hospital systems and never go Read more…

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Take the Community Hospital Insurance Coalition (CHIC) for example. With our expert support and management, more than 30 rural hospitals who have come together to own this medical stop-loss reinsurance company. They are paying less for their insurance, improving benefits program performance, and receiving their share of a significant annual surplus cash distribution (~$2.5 million since inception in 2018).