Health Insurance Exchanges Open Tomorrow 10/1
Thanks to one of our Corvallis supporters for pointing us to this article on the Health Insurance Exchanges.
The OpenNotes project goes wide: a million patients and families enabled by information!
We continue to work on creating an Oregon Open Notes Consortium and had a great meeting last week with many health system leaders. Check this e-patient blog out. Nationally, Open Notes has a million patients and families...
Shop for health care like airfare: Medical pricing websites proliferate
Portland Business Journal story on medical pricing websites, including OKCopay who has added Portland, OR to their dataset. Founder Toure McKluskey will present Portland data at our event Tuesday, September...
Fair Pricing Law Prompts Most California Hospitals To Adopt Policies To Protect Uninsured Patients From High Charges
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation reports on the effects of California’s Hospital Fair Pricing Act, as published by Health Affairs. [blockquote][div]Millions of uninsured Americans rely on hospital emergency departments (EDs) for medical care. Throughout the United...
NPR story on High Deductible Health Plans- on the rise
NPR story on High Deductible Plans. What does it mean for you? Are you on a high deductible plan?
September 10th Forum on OKCopay, with founder Toure McCluskey
OkCopay is an innovative Seattle-based startup that provides communities of uninsured, underinsured, and those seeking non-covered services with tools to help them find affordable medical services. They are focused on lowering routine out-of-pocket costs for those...
Study on Portland Readiness for Health Insurance Exchange
RWJF Reform Community Report on Portland, OR Readiness for Health Insurance Exchange
Stop the Churn: Preventing Gaps in Health Insurance Coverage
Commonwealth Fund new blog article on insurance churn. How will the Insurance Exchange impact the churn?
Presentation on Oregon Health Insurance Co-ops
Here are the Power Point slides that were used by Dawn Bonder and Ralph Prows at tonight's forum on Oregon's two new CO-OPs. They have been put together into one file, which you can view here. For best viewing of the video, click the full-screen icon in the video...
Insurance Exchanges Impact the Level of Competition in Nongroup Market
35% more insurance plans to be available after reform, according to analysis. In Oregon the number has already gone from 9 pre-reform to 12 post-reform. Learn more...
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