Starting and growing a conversation about health care costs

Even before the pandemic, which has caused so much economic uncertainty across the U.S., medical debt was a huge issue and major stressor for millions of Americans. It’s even more so today. And the lack of transparency around health care costs doesn’t help. Medical debt is stressful no matter what, but many people are hit...Read more

FHC President Testifies at First SAPCDAC Meeting

John Freedman, MD/MBA

May 19, 2021

Leading an APCD, Starting an APCD

Today, I had the privilege of testifying before the first meeting of the State All-Payer Claims Database Advisory Committee (SAPCDAC). Those of you on this blog likely know that I’ve worked on APCDs since 2005, and my team and I here at FHC have worked on APCDs in over 20 states—touching the vast majority of...Read more

FHC Senior Consultant Talks the Future of Telehealth and Lower Healthcare Costs in Op-Ed

Mary Jo Condon, MPPA

May 12, 2021

Analytics and Reporting

FHC Senior Consultant, Mary Jo Condon, recently published the following Op-Ed, Does the Long-Term Future of Telehealth Mean Lower Healthcare Costs?, in MedTech Intellegence. Read the full piece below. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, use of telehealth was more of an outlier in the healthcare industry, but the pandemic and ensuing quarantines forced rapid implementation of...Read more

FHC President Discusses Hospital Non-Compliance in Health Transparency Legislation

John Freedman, MD/MBA

April 23, 2021

Analytics and Reporting, Data Quality

This piece on hospital price transparency non-compliance originally appeared on healthcare innovation, authored by Rajiv Leventhal. Having hospitals and insurers disclose their prices for items and services they provide has been a key federal healthcare initiative of late, but already, reports of non-compliance have dominated much of the conversation. As of Jan. 1, 2021, new regulations...Read more

FHC President John Freedman: The Health Crisis that Didn’t Go Away (WV Gazette-Mail)

John Freedman, MD/MBA

April 23, 2021

Analytics and Reporting, Leading an APCD

This Op-Ed was originally published in the Charleston Gazette-Mail. Even in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and worldwide lockdowns, the opioid epidemic is raging unabated. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, since 1999, nearly 850,000 people in the United States have died from drug overdoses. About 500,000 of those deaths...Read more

FHC President pens Op-Ed promoting use of state APCD data for vaccine rollout

John Freedman, MD/MBA

April 8, 2021

Analytics and Reporting

This weekend, Freedman HealthCare CEO, John Freedman, published an Op-Ed in MedPage Today discussing how state’s all-payer claims databases (APCDs) can help policymakers target COVID-19 vaccine distribution. Our nation recently marked one year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. President Biden marked the anniversary by announcing an accelerated pace for getting the nation vaccinated...Read more

Thursday Thoughts with Douglas McCarthy, President of Issues Research, Inc.

Jonathan Mathieu, Ph. D.

April 1, 2021

Analytics and Reporting

In this latest installment of our Thursday Thoughts series, FHC Senior Health Care Data/Policy Consultant Jonathan Mathieu talked to Douglas McCarthy, M.B.A, president of Issues Research, Inc., in Durango, Colorado. Mr. McCarthy has more than 30 years of experience in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors and has consulted on projects for corporations,...Read more

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Starting and growing a conversation about health care costs

FHC President Testifies at First SAPCDAC Meeting

FHC Senior Consultant Talks the Future of Telehealth and Lower Healthcare Costs in Op-Ed

FHC President Discusses Hospital Non-Compliance in Health Transparency Legislation

FHC President John Freedman: The Health Crisis that Didn’t Go Away (WV Gazette-Mail)

FHC President pens Op-Ed promoting use of state APCD data for vaccine rollout

Thursday Thoughts with Douglas McCarthy, President of Issues Research, Inc.

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