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Coronavirus (Covid-19) and the office: A software company and its return-to-the-campus plans

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Coronavirus (Covid-19) and the office: A software company and its return-to-the-campus plans

Many employers around the country are grappling with how to get workers back to the office safely in the pandemic. We teamed up with our partner Anna Werner, chief consumer investigative correspondent for CBS This Morning, to do a story about Epic Systems, a health care software company, that faced a firestorm of objections from […]

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Price estimates at the doctor’s office: Yes, it can be true

Filed Under: Costs, Health plans, Health reform

Price estimates at the doctor’s office: Yes, it can be true

Epic, the giant electronic medical records company, is offering a price estimate button that doctors can use in the office. Kristin Cain, a reproductive endocrinologist in North Dakota, posted this on Twitter: “EPIC has a button I just discovered: Patient Estimate. After you place an order, it estimates the out of pocket cost. Except if […]

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