September 2022 | 6 Degrees Health

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The Importance of Cost Containment in Healthcare in the United States

Rising healthcare costs in the United States have made cost containment more important than ever. Read to learn why and how you can combat it.

Moving to a self-insured model can save your company time and money while ensuring employees health claims are paid.

Cracking The Codes

Reference-based Pricing

Written By Bruce Shutan Payment-integrity services evolve as tool to help self-insured health plans weed out fraud, waste and abuse It’s almost hard to fathom that an estimated 25% of $4.1 trillion in U.S. health care spending has been traced to fraud, waste and abuse. In some cases, overcharging for medical services represent egregious attempts to […]

A patient reviews a medical bill with a giant dollar sign to illustrate the benefits of choosing RBP vs PPO

Reference-based Pricing vs. PPO

Reference-based Pricing

If you’re an employer looking to compare reference-based pricing and PPOs, this guide can help.

Cost Containment in Healthcare: What are the Laws?

Cost Containment

Successful cost containment in healthcare gets support from legislation governing the public sector initiative to cut overspending and boost transparency.

Payment Integrity Act of 2019 Explained

Payment Integrity

If you’re looking for more info on the payment integrity to save on healthcare expenditure, this step-by-step guide will help you better understand it.

Healthcare’s Payment Integrity Trends: How the Landscape Has Changed

Payment Integrity

If you’re looking for more info on the payment integrity to save on healthcare expenditure, this step-by-step guide will help you better understand it.