Insurers and employers are increasingly moving to high-deductible health plans to control costs but this is not necessarily good for the healthcare system nor patients. Now a new alternative is being proposed called the Medical Episode Spending Allowance ( MESA ) plan. According to a University of Minnesota recent study: The number of American workers… Read More
A July 2016 Health Affairs article looked at the adequacy of provider networks for plans sold through insurance Marketplaces established under the Affordable Care Act by conducting a “secret shopper” survey of 743 primary care providers from five of California’s nineteen insurance Marketplace pricing regions in the Summer of 2015. They found less than 30%… Read More
