July 2024 Newsletter
Rising healthcare prices in the U.S. are leading employers outside the healthcare sector to reduce their payroll and decrease their number of employees, according to a new study…
Read MoreTexas Employers Paid Hospitals 259% of What Medicare Would Pay per RAND Price Transparency Study
Analysis examined pricing data for 312 Texas hospitals; state ranks 29 th among states with the highest hospital prices Texas employers paid hospitals over two and a half…
Read MoreNewsletter June 2024: Actionable data to help employers
Texas employers paid over two and a half times what hospitals accepted from Medicare during 2022 for the same services according to new data from RAND Corporation’s Hospital Price Transparency Study. In…
Read MoreNewsletter May 2024: “It’s absolutely outrageous.’
“Every year, Americans spend trillions of dollars on health care, money that is increasingly being gobbled up by a small number of payers, providers and dominant intermediaries that…
Read MoreUnderstanding employers’ fiduciary duty for health benefits
Employers who provide health coverage have a fiduciary duty to act in the interests of plan participants, and that requires more than relying on the assurances of brokers…
Read MoreReign in health care expenses to improve small business optimism
Optimism is on the decline among small business owners, and reigning in the expenses and uncertainty related to health care could help turn that around. The National Federation…
Read MoreNewsletter April 2024: Healthcare expenses continue to plague employers
New Survey Data Highlights Continuing Concerns About Health Care Expenses Small Business for America’s Future, a national coalition of business owners and leaders, recently conducted a survey of…
Read MoreNew Survey Data Highlights Continuing Concerns About Health Care Expenses
Small business is big in Texas. There are over 3 million small businesses in our state, with over 5 million employees and they contribute billions of dollars to…
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