by Tom Barrett | Aug 29, 2019 | Company News, Employer Issues, Healthcare Issues, Medicare, Medicare Medicaid, Uncategorized
Medicare can be daunting and confusing and quite difficult to grasp. This is true in the case of existing Medicare beneficiaries as well as their care givers. And, it’s especially true for those prospective new enrollees who are about to turn 65 and have to...
by Tom Barrett | Jul 18, 2019 | Company News, Medicare
We have some very exciting news to share with you. Earlier this year, with great encouragement from our clients, we launched bbg65Plus. Thinking about Medicare can be truly daunting. For years our clients have leaned on our knowledge, experience, and hallmark customer...
by Deanna Broaddus | Jun 17, 2019 | SharedFunding
The value of SharedFunding is that it creates a gap between what you were paying for traditional insurance and what you pay with SharedFunding. Unfortunately it’s typical for insurance costs to increase annually. However, we’ve found that by creating a gap with...
by Tom Barrett | May 24, 2019 | Healthcare Costs, Insurance, Providers, SharedFunding, Uncategorized
A study of spending on 12.5 million diagnostics tests by UnitedHealthcare once again revealed substantial variation in the prices patients pay for common diagnostic tests. The seven groups of common diagnostic tests included echocardiograms, mammograms and...
by Tom Barrett | Mar 28, 2019 | Employer Issues, General Insurance Issues, Health Policy, Healthcare Issues, Healthcare Reform, Insurance, National News, Uncategorized
Buried far below the most recent headlines related to eliminating the ACA, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) once again announced that employers in the small group market still enrolled in Transitional Relief Plans (pre-ACA) may keep their existing policies...
