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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...

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...

Jan 21
4 min

You can stuff that colonoscopy. Here's something better.

This blog post is about colon screening, not colon testing. If you have an actual reason to need a colonoscopy other than you haven't had...

Jan 13
5 min

Valid Vendor of the Month: Nova Healthcare Administrators

As a recent recipient of a Validation Institute Health Value Award for Health Plan Performance Management, Nova has come a long way since...

Jan 11
4 min

EEOC releases strict new wellness incentive limits

January 21st Update: Looks like we may be wrong about our initial take: it's likely even worse, for vendors and employers. Reading the...

Jan 3
3 min

Scary new COVID variant will be reaching your group soon

As though the current COVID isn’t transmissible enough, this new variant spreads about 70% more easily. Hence 70% more urgency to educate...

Dec 14, 2020
4 min

Six Reasons Quizzify and Seniors Are a Natural Fit

Finally, Medicare Advantage has discovered Quizzify. And, finally, Quizzify has discovered Medicare Advantage. The question is why it...

Dec 8, 2020
5 min

Quizzify's Greatest Hits of Healthcare Waste

Lately most of the Quizzify buzz has been about our new engagement guarantee. You can use a free, valid tool to measure our...

Dec 4, 2020
3 min

Quizzify and Validation Institute Step Up with Killer Guarantees

We and the Validation Institute are pleased to be integral to the two most powerful guarantees ever offered in employee health services....

Nov 4, 2020
3 min

Sera Prognostics Named "Valid Vendor of the Month"

Quizzify is pleased to announce Sera Prognostics as the 5th recipient of the Valid Vendor of the Month Award. In an industry in which...