• Home
  • About
    • Contact
    • Client Survey
  • Services
    • Health Care Reform Navigators
    • Strategic Benefits Planning
    • Employee Benefits >
      • Group Private Exchange
      • Group Medical Plans >
        • Fully-Insured Health Plans
        • Self-Funded Plans
        • Consumer-Driven Plans
        • Cafeteria Plans
        • SHOP Plans
        • RKA Benefits Blend
      • Group Life Insurance
      • Group Disability
      • Group Dental Plans
      • Group Vision Plans
      • Group Voluntary Benefits >
        • Value-Added Services
      • RKA Benefits Blend
    • PEOs - HR Outsourcing
    • Pricing
  • Get Quote
  • Benefits Edge
  • "Bill Please!" Forum
  • Employee Solution
    • Calculators
Rylan Klaseen & Associates
909-243-4886

Benefits Edge

From our team to yours.

Contact Rylan

360 Degree Transparency in Health Care

5/31/2016

 
Picture
While Rich Lesser's article How Transparency Can Transform Health Care is much appreciated and offers a valid ray of hope, can we please have 360 degrees of transparency in health care? Not just on provider practices but also on price? Can we have transparency from end to end?

Lesser's examples of improving SUV safety and the development of Linux as successful models of transparency that paid attention to his four criteria are appreciated:
-Disseminate information relevant to important decisions
-Offer a clear and actionable message
-Drive change
-Create real value

This may very well be a launch point for providers in regards to value-based care -- but can we have more?

Getting inside of our bodies is a bit more intensive than getting inside of our cars or our computers. As we're offering providers these helpful examples, saying "if these industries succeeded, so can you," I believe we have the right to ask for more.

Linux is free and while the information age has reduced the car salesman's "negotiating" edge, don't fool yourself into thinking it is a game you're winning. The dealership always wins that one.


I know, Lesser didn't address price. But that is my point. We all, I believe, want value-based health care, which I translate into "care about me as a human being."

Added on to providers having a conversation with one another about outcomes, though, we need providers to have a conversation with us — as consumers — about price, in language we can understand.

We need this conversation to take place before we choose health care services, to earn our business, and we need this conversation to take place after our health care services, to retain our business.

The HHS has called for everyone to take their challenge and redesign the medical bill. I want to add this on to Lesser’s hope for the International Consortium for Health Outcome Measurement's (ICHOM) Global Health Outcomes Benchmarking (GLOBE) efforts.

My staff and I are going to take a stab at designing the medical bill we’d like to see. Why not?! We’re all in this together. I share Lesser’s optimism that we can all mold the health care industry into the service we all want and need it to be. Won’t you join us?


    RSS Feed

    Picture
    Rylan Klaseen

    Rylan Klaseen & Associates

    Serving Southern California:
    Tailored Benefits Delivery
    316 W 2nd Street
    Suite 500

    Los Angeles
    CA 90012
    Cell: (909)243-4886

    Archives

    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013

    Categories

    All
    About Rylan Klaseen & Associates
    Affordable Care Act
    Consumer Driven Health Care
    Employee Benefits
    Healthcare Costs
    Healthcare Quality
    Recruiting
    Retention
    Voluntary
    Workplace Wellness

    Stay informed! Subscribe to our mailing list

    * required

    RSS Feed

    Insurance Agents Rancho Cucamonga
    Tweets by @RylanKlaseen
Rylan Klaseen & Associates          Tailored Benefits Delivery          Serving Southern California
316 W 2nd Street, Suite 500, Los Angeles, CA 90012 Cell 909-243-4886