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Ideas on transparency, reimbursement, network design, and the operating model behind a simpler healthcare system.
Neal Kaufman breaks down self-funded healthcare spending into claims, stop-loss insurance, and administrative costs to help employers understand where their healthcare dollars go.
Neal Kaufman
CFO, OpenNetworks Health
Learn how direct-to-employer network platforms help self-funded employers build custom provider networks and gain control over healthcare purchasing.
Coty Kuhn
Coty Kuhn and Jessica Reid explain why direct healthcare contracting needs one connected platform for network design, transparent pricing, claims repricing, and performance reporting.
Coty Kuhn & Jessica Reid
Healthcare providers should be able to understand how claims are priced, adjusted, and paid without deciphering opaque reimbursement logic.
David Finn
Neal Kaufman outlines the ERISA fiduciary duties, data-access risks, and personal liability concerns facing corporate healthcare plan leadership.
Neal Kaufman
Warren Ables explains how TPAs can shift from managing complexity they do not control to delivering transparent, customizable value for employers.
Warren Ables
Mandy Geyer outlines how employers can use transparent rate data, claims analytics, and configurable networks to quantify and manage healthcare costs.
Mandy Geyer, FSA, MAAA, MPH
Ryan Atwood explains why rural providers and community leaders must help shape H.R. 1 Rural Health Transformation Program funding now.
Ryan Atwood
Roger Francoline explains why price transparency regulations have not yet delivered practical, reliable healthcare pricing for patients and employers.
Roger Francoline
Jeff Hogan explains why employers and CFOs need clearer health plan data, fiduciary accountability, and custom networks that create predictability.
Jeff Hogan
Joe Nelson responds to New York City's Healthcare Accountability Report and explains how OpenNetworks addresses price opacity, data gaps, and costly intermediaries.
Joe Nelson
Neal Kaufman explains why healthcare price transparency needs infrastructure that makes pricing actionable across the full transaction process.
Neal Kaufman
Paul Sanford reflects on restoring harmony to healthcare delivery through aligned incentives, clearer accountability, and transparent relationships.
Paul Sanford
Joe Nelson explains how OpenNetworks addresses hidden fees, withheld data, opaque claims processing, and the root causes of healthcare payment friction.
Joe Nelson
