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[Guidance Overview]
"The Departments have already finalized requirements for hospitals to disclose their standard charges, including negotiated rates with third-party payers, which take effect on January 1, 2021. ... The insurance pricing transparency final rule has three major aspects to making pricing information more available for consumers while incentivizing consumers to shop for services from lower-cost, higher-value providers." 
Frost Brown Todd LLC
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"[This graphic] shows preventive services with the slowest growth in utilization between 2014 and 2017, across the Individual, Employer-based, Medicare, and Medicaid markets" 
Milliman
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"[This graphic] shows preventive services with the fastest growth in utilization between 2014 and 2017, across the Individual, Employer-based, Medicare, and Medicaid markets" 
Milliman
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"The average cost of a COVID-19 test in the commercial market is $130. In contrast, out-of-network cost [is] more than $185 for nearly half of diagnostic tests and a third of antibody and antigen tests. This represents a 10% increase in the share of high cost diagnostic and antibody tests since July. The share of COVID-19 tests administered out-of-network increased by 14%. As much as 16% of out-of-network test claims were more than $390 -- three times the average cost." 
America's Health Insurance Plans [AHIP]
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"In this analysis, [the authors] ... estimate the shares of a typical nongroup insurance premium attributable to an array of different benefits. [They] also estimate the financial implications for people using those benefits should they be eliminated from the nongroup insurance benefit package." 
Urban Institute
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"For those ... ages 55 to 64, most are worried about their ability to afford health insurance before reaching the current Medicare eligibility age of 65. Fifty-seven percent of the employed group is worried ... Thirty-three percent of those employed and unemployed and under 65 are planning to reduce preventive care appointments and/or everyday household purchases like groceries to afford health insurance before they reach 65.... Thirty-eight percent of the non-working group gets health insurance through either a former employer or a partner's employer[.]" 
InsuranceNewsNet.com
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