Jeanne Pinder
“I must admit that I chose to be uninsured,” C. wrote to me. “My work does not provide health insurance and I looked into nystateofhealth.ny.gov during the fall of 2014, excited to have real health care options. I am 33 years old, and could comfortably afford an insurance that was $160 per month. I punched in […]
Jeanne Pinder
Summary: Quality ratings on medical procedures and providers, including Yelp, are a big issue. So I was interested in the online discussion in the last day or two on a piece by Casey Quinlan, the patient advocate (disclosure: and a friend of mine), about whether patients should “Yelp” their doctors. Anyone who’s interested should look […]
Jeanne Pinder
Summary: Crowdsourcing is engaging a lot of news organizations today. While some journalists are nervous about crowdsourcing — “Yikes, we’d rather talk than listen, and what if they tell us something we don’t want to hear? Or something that we know isn’t true?” — we here at clearhealthcosts.com love crowdsourcing. We find, as […]
Jeanne Pinder
Summary: On Twitter, the hashtag #HCPT stands for Health Care Price Transparency. People use that hashtag to anchor discussions about healthcare pricing, resources for finding out “how much is that” in healthcare, negotiating price with healthcare providers, and the ins and outs of understanding your insurer’s Explanation Of Benefit (EOB) statements, and any other healthcare […]
Jeanne Pinder
Ever try to find out what things cost in health care? Here’s your 10-step list, in handy webinar form. The first rule: Ask. From easy questions (what are your best resources?) to tougher ones (can I really negotiate with my doctor?) we give you clear, specific, actionable steps to make your life easier. Casey Quinlan […]
Jeanne Pinder
Did you miss the health-care price transparency tweetchat Monday evening? The one under #hcpt on Twitter? No worries. We have you covered. Here’s the transcript, hot off the @symplur presses. The topics: How do you figure out what health insurance is right for you? How do you build a healthcare budget with a high-deductible plan? […]
Jeanne Pinder
Summary: In case you missed them: We did a couple of tweetchats on healthcare price transparency. They are every other Monday at 8 p.m. ET, hashtag #hcpt. Jeanne PinderJeanne Pinder is the founder and CEO of ClearHealthCosts. She worked at The New York Times for almost 25 years as a reporter, editor and human resources […]
Jeanne Pinder
People ask us a lot: what can I do to cut health-care costs? There are different answers, depending on your perspective: patient/consumer, provider (hospital, doctor), payer (insurance company or government or whoever) or someone else. The most important thing: ask what it costs. This is not an easy question to ask: many of us are […]
Casey Quinlan
Casey Quinlan of Mighty Casey Media (Twitter @MightyCasey, @CancerForXmas) gave powerful voice to a patient’s perspective on controlling medical costs on the email list of the Society for Participatory Medicine. Casey is a writer, speaker and media consultant, who was asked to write a blog post on the topic, which is reprinted here. Reblogged with permission from Epatients.net. […]
