Healthcare Providers
The Healthcare Blue Book, through its affiliation with CareOperative, works with healthcare providers to establish fair, upfront pricing for consumers. Many providers do not have fee schedules for self-pay consumers and are forced to use “billed charges”. Providers are uncomfortable charging self-pay patients much higher fees than their insured patients, but have not established a fair pricing schedule.
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Providers typically provide their biggest discounts to insurers, who:
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Providing fair, upfront pricing to patients allows providers to:
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- delay and deny many claims
- increase their administrative costs
- limit access to them via in-network and out-of-network mechanisms
- arbitrarily adjust fee schedules or negotiate rates with strong tactics
- are slow to credential new colleagues.
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- receive fair compensation at the time of service
- have no collections cost or delay in payment (saving 3-10% of revenue)
- lower administrative costs
- have no arbitrary limitations on patient care recommendations
- diversify their patient mix
- attract patients from out-of-network plans
- access to over 20 million self-pay working Americans
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CareOperative Services:
- Establish recommended consumer pricing guidelines and rates
- Access to Healthcare Blue Book fee schedules to simplify managed care contracting for smaller plans
- Managed care contract reviews and benchmarking
For additional information, please visit CareOperative or email info@healthcarebluebook.com.
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Employers
For employers who do not provide health benefits, The Healthcare Blue Book and CareOperative can provide you with free or low cost solutions to help your employees afford the healthcare they need.
For employers with health benefits, The Healthcare Blue Book and CareOperative can help you reduce costs and provide resources to your employees in high deductible or consumer driven plans.
CareOperative Services:
- Develop cost conscious employees
- Educate employees to save money while maintaining quality care
- Consumer driven health care survey and benchmarking
- Benefits Design Action Plan
- Insurance/Payor Fee Audits and Benchmarking
For additional information, please visit CareOperative or email info@healthcarebluebook.com.
If you have any feedback on healthcarebluebook.com or it's content please send an email to sitefeedback@healthcarebluebook.com.
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