Our experts are closely monitoring nine healthcare trends that are shaping industry leaders’ strategies in 2024. And this year is especially interesting, because some of the biggest and fastest healthcare industry shifts in decades are happening right now. As such, forward-looking healthcare organizations (HCOs) that are on-track to differentiate their brand in the modern marketplace […]
Posts Tagged ‘Price Transparency’
Three Foreseen Payer Changes Due to Price Transparency Legislation
The final step in the CMS price transparency legislation is due January 2024 and requires that health plans ensure that their members have access to accurate cost of care tools that show total procedure costs for an episode of care. These 3 major shifts will happen operationally due to price transparency: The “Plan Design […]
How Payers Can Use Cost Estimator Tools to Drive Growth and Member Satisfaction
There’s been a lot to say about the cost transparency legislation that came out a few years back from CMS. The final step in the legislation is due January 2024 and requires that health plans aka “payers” ensure that their members have access to far more robust and accurate cost of care tools. These enhanced […]
Healthcare Price Transparency: Why Clear Costs Can Drive Brand Loyalty
On Jan. 1, 2021, new guidelines from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services went into effect requiring hospitals that operate in the United States to provide “clear, accessible pricing information” online for the services they provide. Hospitals have a choice in how they provide this information, and the experience varies widely from hospital to […]
Does Ease of Use Impact Healthcare Outcomes?
I’m intrigued by a recent Harris Poll study initiated by by Change Healthcare. I don’t want to parse the entire but I do want to highlight something Perficient has been talking about for a while in terms of the consumerism trend. Healthcare’s complexity is an outlier compared to the experience provided by many other industries. […]