Early Innings HealthyHive’s (www.healthyhive.com) open data project is making modest in-roads in proving how public-private initiatives can come together to drive education and transparency for consumers looking to manage rising…
Tag: <span>Medicare</span>
We have been looking at the 2012 Inpatient cost data from Medicare. It covers the most frequent 100 inpatient services. We were going to publish the Average out-of-pocket cost along…
Learn from the Experts: Part D Overview By: Rich Allen, Allen Associates As HealthyHive.com gets its start in NH (and the US), we want to provide guest bloggers to…
Consumers under Original Medicare can save money by becoming more engaged in their healthcare. Our mission is to bring publicly available data (also known as “open data”) to the masses…
During 2012 one biopsy in particular was conducted quite a few times (221,798 to be exact). Consumers enrolled in Original Medicare paid $38.32 on average in out-of-pocket per procedure*. The…
What % of Medicare providers are chiropractors? Now you know. Enrollment in the various quality & incentive programs are low across the board. Not all providers are eligible to participate…
When we show informed health care consumers (like physicians) our Medicare charge tool at http://www.healthyhive.com/medicare_charges/ the initial reaction is “wow, awesome interface and very informative. But this would confuse the average consumer…