Six Things Employees Should Know about Antibiotics
We will be publishing the Greatest Hits of our three years of “Six Things” postings throughout December, starting with this new one. The...
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- Nov 16
- 1 min
Ever Wondered Why ER Bills Are So High?
Ever Wondered Why ER Bills Are So High? We rarely repost others’ postings in this blog, because it hurts our pride to admit someone else...
- Nov 15
- 2 min
Ignore the new prostate cancer guidelines
Never in the history of Quizzify have we proposed ignoring guidelines, but the National Comprehensive Cancer Network just backtracked its...
- Nov 9
- 4 min
How to Knock a Digit out of ER Claims
This is the second part of the Quizzify Prevent Consent series. The first part focused on the health equity issue of minimizing that...
- Nov 5
- 5 min
Avoiding Medical Bankruptcy: the Ultimate Health Equity Victory
This is Part One of a Two-Part Series If one issue exemplifies health equity, it’s the cost of healthcare itself and the differential...
- Oct 13
- 3 min
RIP The Baby Aspirin
by Al Lewis The recommendation to take a daily baby aspirin (81 milligrams) as a blood thinner to prevent a heart attack or stroke has a...
- Oct 9
- 5 min
Six Things To Know about Sleeping Pills
Better sleeping through chemistry? Employees need to know the risks… In case you missed the last edition of Six Things, it was all about...
- Sep 4
- 5 min
Six Reasons to Add Health Education to Your Employee Benefits
Would you give every employee a $10,000 piece of equipment, without any training, and say: “Use it however you like”? No. of course not....
- Aug 25
- 5 min
Why are surprise bills like cockroaches?
Spray Raid on cockroaches and you think you’ve killed them dead. You do kill a few visible ones, but the others just scurry out of view....
- Jun 29
- 3 min
Quizzify earns total victory in surprise bill dispute
Imagine having a surprise bill reduced 95.3%, from $14,269.30 to $674. And that's without going to court, without conceding a nickel from...
- Jun 28
- 4 min
How Quizzify weaponizes direct hospital contracting
This is the sequel to Quizzify earns total victory in surprise bill dispute. By way of background, the actual language is now:...
- Jun 22
- 2 min
Review of Never Pay the First Bill
This is the best health policy book ever, largely because it’s not about making health policy. It’s conclusion: individuals and employers...
- May 28
- 5 min
"The ticks are back...and they're hungry."
That headline from the Boston Globe (5/22) says it all. The warm spring is responsible for the infestation. We'll start by checking off...
- May 17
- 4 min
Just because it's healthcare doesn't mean it's good for you.
The Birth of Quizzify (“Does wondering how Quizzify got started keep you up at night? Wonder no longer”) describes how massive...
- Apr 19
- 7 min
The 8 Most Overrated Foods
Here is the list you've been waiting for. Or maybe you haven't been. But it's here nonetheless. We find at Quizzify that it is much...
- Apr 12
- 6 min
10 Take-aways from our COVID Vaccine Hesitancy webinar with the CDC’s Dr. Singleton
First, we’d like to thank both Drs. Christa-Marie Singleton and Scott Conard for making this one of our three best-ever and most popular...
- Apr 7
- 4 min
Surprise Bill Update: We're Winning!
Reminder: today's 1 PM EDT webinar is very timely: Overcoming Vaccine Hesitancy. It features the CDC's Dr. Christa-Marie Singleton along...
- Feb 22
- 4 min
Busting the myths of the COVID Vaccine
While the large majority of us can’t wait to get our vaccine, polls reveal that about a third of people intend to decline it, including...
- Feb 22
- 11 min
The "Top 20" easiest employee behavior changes
Quizzify changes behavior through knowledge, not willpower. The actual changes below are quite easy and often pleasant, once you know...
- Jan 26
- 5 min
EEOC wellness program compliance suddenly matters!
February 12th update: The EEOC's proposed rules are officially dead. New rules, months away, will propose de miminis incentives and...