Editorial Staff

Pioneer Institute to Present Results of New Consumer Poll Monday at State House Healthcare Price Transparency Event

/in , , , , /by Editorial Staff
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on
LinkedIn
+

BOSTON – Pioneer Institute will present the results of a new consumer poll at “A Roadmap to Healthcare Price Transparency,” a forum by Pioneer and several partners, to be held Monday, November 4th from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the Great Hall of the State House. The event will mark the fifth anniversary of the effective date of Massachusetts’ healthcare price transparency laws which require both insurers and healthcare providers of all types to give consumers price information before they obtain healthcare services.

The poll, conducted under the auspices of David Paleologos of DAPA Research this past June, is a random sample of 500 Massachusetts residents who obtain health insurance through their employers. The results of the poll will reveal consumers’ attitudes towards healthcare price transparency, whom they trust when it comes to healthcare prices, how they feel about their insurers, how they would like to receive price information, what they think of cash incentives, and much more.

The forum on November 4 will feature welcoming remarks from Pioneer’s partners in this event: State Treasurer and Receiver General Deborah B. Goldberg; Undersecretary Edward Palleschi from the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation; Michael Caljouw, Vice-President for Government and Regulatory Affairs, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA); and Lora Pellegrini, President and CEO of the Massachusetts Association of Health Plans. Pioneer Senior Fellow in Healthcare Barbara Anthony will also give welcoming remarks.

Barbara Anthony, Seher Chowdhury, Research Assistant with Pioneer Institute, and Keith Horvath of DAPA Research, will present findings from the poll.

Former Massachusetts Group Insurance Commission Executive Director Dolores L. Mitchell will moderate a panel discussion about the poll and price transparency in general featuring Ateev Mehrotra, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School;  Mark Galvin, President and CEO of MMS Analytics Inc. d/b/a MyMedicalShopper; Andrew Jackmauh, Chief of Staff of the Center for Health Information and Analysis; Lois Johnson, General Counsel, Massachusetts Health Policy Commission; Katie Holahan, Vice-President, Government Affairs, Associated Industries of Massachusetts; and Gary Anderson, Massachusetts Commissioner of Insurance.

Closing remarks will be given by Pioneer’s Executive Director James Stergios.

There will also be live demonstrations of cost estimator tools from Fallon Health, BCBSMA, Tufts Health Plan, Harvard Pilgrim, and CignaHealth.

Those wishing to attend the forum can sign up online.

About Pioneer

Pioneer Institute is an independent, non-partisan, privately funded research organization that seeks to improve the quality of life in Massachusetts through civic discourse and intellectually rigorous, data-driven public policy solutions based on free market principles, individual liberty and responsibility, and the ideal of effective, limited and accountable government.

Get Updates On Our Healthcare Cost Transparency Initiative!

Related Posts:

Survey: Consumers Want Healthcare Price Information, But Few Realize It’s Available

Great strides have been made to increase healthcare price transparency through online cost estimator tools and a state law that requires providers to give out price information. Yet despite the eagerness of consumers to access prices and out-of-pocket costs, many are unaware that such information is available and don’t know how to access it, according to survey results published by Pioneer Institute.

Study: Shift from Highest-Priced Healthcare Providers Would Generate Tremendous Savings

Consumers in just one Massachusetts county could have saved nearly $22 million in a single year and $116.6 million adjusted for inflation over four years if they switched from using the most expensive providers for 16 shoppable healthcare services to those whose prices were closer to average, according to a new study published by Pioneer Institute.

Pioneer Urges Future COVID-19 Study and Recommendations Task Force to Consider Impact on Nursing Home Residents

After over 5,000 people have died of COVID-19 in Massachusetts nursing homes, Pioneer Institute is issuing an open letter to the state’s future COVID-19 health equity task force that outlines an extensive list of recommendations on infection control and preparedness in eldercare facilities.

Open Letter: COVID-19 Study and Recommendations Task Force Established Pursuant to Massachusetts Bill H.4672

Pioneer hopes the members of this important task force will be appointed as soon as possible and that they will look into recommendations to address Covid-19 among the aged and in the state’s nursing homes. Read our Open Letter.

National Study Finds Most States Lack Healthcare Price Transparency Laws

At a time when the coronavirus pandemic has caused massive shifts in state policies on telehealth and scope of practice in healthcare, a new Pioneer Institute study underscores that most of the 50 states continue to suffer from weak laws regarding price transparency.  The study identified states that have laws that require carriers, providers or both to provide personalized cost information to consumers before obtaining healthcare services.  Fully 33 states placed in the lowest of the three broad analytic tiers on the strength of their state healthcare transparency laws. 

New Study Calls for Re-thinking Massachusetts’ COVID-19 Care Standards

Pioneer's new study raises concerns about the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s (DPH’s) Crises Standards of Care (CSC) issued earlier this month, which bear the earmarks of a state bureaucratic effort and should be rethought under a process that includes a thorough vetting by Massachusetts citizens.