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Why Hospital Price Data Matters pbgh.org/messaging_tool… #pbgh #fairhealthcostssocialmediaposts via PBGH

Just had a routine chest x-ray Baylor Scott & White Health under Medicare. Medicare facility fee paid ($79) vs. commercial allowed facility fee ($>500). Medicare is a fair benchmark. #Employers needlessly supporting hospital revenue maximization. Join @txeahc.

Good to see Elisabeth Rosenthal with @KHNews commenting on CBS Mornings . >100,000,000 with medical debt in the USA, more than 25% with >$5,000 in debt. Healthcare becoming a financial death sentence for too many Americas. Support Texas Employers for Affordable Health Care

Texas' jumbo employers cannot stay on the sidelines on egregious healthcare pricing. Hurts their own employees and families, and all smaller employees and families. Support your fellow #Texas citizens by supporting Texas Employers for Affordable Health Care.

Negative consequences of Texas Hospital Consolidation per The Jindal School Alliance for Physician Leadership, apl.utdallas.edu/346/. Price increases of 20-30%. Support HB711 and support Texas Employers for Affordable Health Care

Fair piece in 2019 from Sarah Carioca on hospital consolidation,texmed.org/Template.aspx?… . Per Dr. Robert Town UT Austin "Consolidation reduces competition, limits patient choice, and causes prices to rise on average" and quality suffers Support Texas Employers for Affordable Health Care

Recent Keckley Report Paul Keckley, PhD concluded, "...consumers are paying disproportionately more for healthcare."Patients' out-of-pocket spending increased by 10.4% in 2021, fastest rate of growth since 1985. Support affordable healthcare for Texans Texas Employers for Affordable Health Care .

Studies now confirm that some companies are not relocating or building new facilities in communities with excessive healthcare pricing. #txledge may want to take notice. Texas Employers for Affordable Health Care

A recent Qualtrics study reported 43% of people in 2022 deferred healthcare because of cost. 48% did so in 2020 due to COVID. The pandemic created unnecessary death, so does high healthcare costs.

Rising healthcare costs are MOST responsible for stagnant wages and declining quality of life for the middle class. Texas Employers for Affordable Health Care

Thank you James Frank for introducing #HB711 in support of Texas employees and their families who are needlessly being crippled by healthcare costs. Texas Employers for Affordable Health Care

Thanks you Dade Phelan for acknowledging that #Texas employees and their families need support from Texas House of Representatives and Texas House. Please pass #HB711

A great podcast from Relentless Health Value on egregious hospital pricing bit.ly/3HjtRzz The Clapback When Hospitals Cannot Constrain Their Own Prices. Texas House of Representatives will learn by listening.

A great podcast from Relentless Health Value, EP390: What Legislators Need to Know About Hospital Prices, bit.ly/3iGh4gZ. Texas Employers for Affordable Health Care Texas House of Representatives

Thank you Texas House of Representatives Select Committee on Healthcare Reform for recommending "Prohibit anti-competitive contracting terms such as all-or-nothing contracts, gag clauses, etc." Please pass #HB711. Texas Employers for Affordable Health Care

Per 2022 TX Employers Survey, 86% AGREE state legislature should hold healthcare providers accountable for charging significantly more than the marketplace. Texas Employers for Affordable Health Care Texas House of Representatives

Good summary of the problem in Forbes, bit.ly/3QOeUbC. Consolidation of hospitals (and health plans) has led to unsupportable prices. We cannot reverse consolidation so the best option now is to pass legislation, PassHB711. Texas House of Representatives

Great discussion today with Arnold Ventures and POLITICO on hospital site neutral payments. Be sure to see the video

Great forum today at Rice University on National Health Care Affordability. Per Jonathan Gruber healthcare economist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), "Why are employers not making more noise, why are they not demanding more innovation from their health plans to lower costs?"

Support the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) " “A recent poll of Americans with health insurance found more than half ranked ‘reducing health care costs’ as their top health care policy priority.