A recently released report with the stunning but purposeful title “Healthcare USA: A Cancer on the American Dream” details the degree to which our health care market lacks any reasonable level of reciprocal value for American consumers. Issued by Willis Towers Watson in collaboration with the Council for Affordable Health Coverage, the report shows how premium […] Read Article

Why Does CIVHC Release Health Care Price Information? As administrator of Colorado All Payer Claims Database (CO APCD), the state’s most comprehensive healthcare claims database, and as part of the legislative intent of the CO APCD, Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC) provides facility-specific price and quality information for free! Imaging Prices Now […] Read Article

The verdict is in: Colorado Court Ruling Supports Reference-Based Pricing The Referenced-Based Pricing (RBP) reimbursement model in health insurance (does not include Rx, by the way) is an evolving self-insured plan/claim cost control model that has been in the market in various forms for about a decade. While there are some true believers in this […] Read Article