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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...
Nov 5, 20215 min read


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 13, 20213 min read


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...
Oct 9, 20215 min read


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....
Aug 25, 20215 min read


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 29, 20213 min read


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 27, 20214 min read


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...
Jun 22, 20212 min read


The ticks are back...and they're hungry.
It's time for our annual ticks-are-back blog post, which for some ghoulish reason is always our most popular. This year we're adding the...
May 28, 20215 min read


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...
May 17, 20214 min read


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 12, 20216 min read


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...
Apr 7, 20214 min read


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, 20214 min read
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