Consumer Health Care Shopping Means Knowing Your Rates & Showing Your Rates

Executive teams sharpen your pencils! It's a brave new world in health care payment and reimbursement. The challenge for provider organization executives is clear—know you costs, know your margins, know your price, and be ready to share it!

So, what are the drivers of these market changes? Consumers are paying more health care costs, policymakers are demanding greater price transparency, and private entities are allowing consumers to more readily compare prices.

Consumers Paying More Of The Bill

The first side of this new pricing equation is a health care consumerism driven by consumers footing more of the health . . .