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Tools and incentives can spur cost-conscious decisions BY Stephen Miller, CEBS, HR Today Millennial employees, especially, are “shopping” for nonemergency health care providers, although hurdles continue to impede cost-savvy choices for tests and procedures. Millennial employees—who now outnumber Baby Boomers—are more comfortable with nontraditional ways of engaging with their health care providers and are more…

Why wait for special price transparency regulations before requiring medical suppliers to support a normal shopping experience? By Mark Galvin, Co-founder/CEO, MyMedical Shopper, Insurance Thought Leadership In almost every industry in the U.S., consumers can easily access price information to shop. There is one glaring exception to this rule: goods and services in our nation’s healthcare…

Guest Columnist Mark Galvin is CEO of MyMedicalShopper. Mark has played key roles in 14 New England startups, eight of which he founded and operated as president and CEO. In late 2013, Mark co-founded MyMedicalShopper.  Mark Galvin, CEO of MyMedicalShopper From Cleveland.com In almost every industry in the United States, consumers are able to easily access…

Trusted Advisor and Employee Benefits Consultant Can Now Offer MyMedicalShopper’s Suite of Healthcare Cost-Saving Tools   Portsmouth, NH and Wilbraham, MA – June 26, 2018 – MMS Analytics dba MyMedicalShopper, a leading provider of healthcare price transparency solutions, and The Gaudreau Group, an insurance agency and employee benefits firm, are partnering to give consumers more…

Industry leaders partner to bring price transparency to more than 30 million U.S. consumers   Portsmouth, NH – June 25, 2018 – MyMedicalShopper today announced a partnership with Alegeus, the market leader in consumer-directed healthcare (CDH) solutions. More than 300 health insurance plan and third-party administrator clients leverage the Alegeus platform to deliver benefit accounts…

PORTSMOUTH, N.H., April 10, 2018 — In America, the largest part of the health insurance market is employer-sponsored coverage.(1) But because the current system is more focused on providing results rather than saving money, rising healthcare costs have shifted a greater financial burden onto employers. In response, Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase have teamed…

Administrators that successfully elevate their brand above their competitors are better positioned to capture their share of the healthcare consumerism opportunity. For consumer-directed account administrators, this often means differentiating offering by delivering new (and greater) value to benefit brokers, employer groups, and healthcare consumers – such that all parties benefit from convenience, lower costs, administrative…

NH Startup, MyMedicalShopper, to discuss “common sense” approach to fixing perverted financial incentives responsible for unprecedented state and national healthcare costs Portsmouth, NH – June 14, 2016 – Rich Ashooh, New Hampshire candidate for US Congress, has selected The New England Innovation Center to host a meeting with his guest, Steve Forbes, Editor-in- Chief of Forbes Media, this…