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Illustration for “Are We Doing Prenatal Testing All Wrong?”

January 10, 2022 6 min read

Are We Doing Prenatal Testing All Wrong?

If a vendor pitches you a series of tests for employees where most of the positive results are false, leading to great stress and expense but no actionable results, you would presumably pass.Whereas if a vendor pitches you a single simple blood test that can save your employees considerable stress and expense, you would say: “Where do I sign?”Unfortunately, in the case of prenatal testing, the vast majority of carriers and employers are doing the opposite. They are inadvertently covering exactly

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January 7, 2022 3 min read

J'Accuse! Naked Juice is sugar water

Candy is bad for us. You don’t have to learn it from us. On the other hand, what provides endless question fodder for our trivia quizzes is junk food marketed as health food. For example, we called out “Craisins” (dried cranberries) last month. Everyone assumes that dried fruit is healthy. Well, dried fruit generally is healthy. Except when it isn’t. Learn more by reading Al Lewis' latest Quizzify blog post!

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January 2, 2022 6 min read

The Backstory of Quizzify's Almost-Famous "Prevent Consent"

Does wondering how Quizzify’s ER Sticker Shock Prevent Consent got invented keep you up at night? If so, reading this article should reduce your Ambien intake.Presumably by now, you yourself have the “Prevent Consent” language on your phone, as many brokers, consultants and benefits managers do, for their own family's use. And, boy, do they use it. The majority of these testimonials are from benefits advisors and managers. (You'll also notice they tend to be much less shy than employees about go

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December 20, 2021 5 min read

The Six Tiers of the Quizzify2Go Prevent Consent

You can start by wading into Quizzify's ER Sticker Shock Prevent Consent…and then gradually go deeper until many of your ER visits and some* of your emergency inpatient days are covered.You can “dial up” the Consent at your own speed to the point where, theoretically, 100% of your ER visits and about half your inpatient admissions (the non-electives) can cost about half what you are paying now. Whether it is more or less than half depends on your current contracts relative to Medicare for non-el

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December 13, 2021 3 min read

All you need to know about our Prevent Consent

Following an extensive two-year “soft rollout” to ensure that it wasn’t too good to be true, Quizzify is now officially introducing its ER Sticker Shock Prevent Consent, which slashes fees for all hospital-based in- and out-of-network emergency care dramatically. How dramatically? So dramatically that we can now 100% guarantee that all ER bills from hospitals using the Consent will be 3 figures.[1] Check out this blog post by Al Lewis.

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November 16, 2021 1 min read

Ever Wondered Why ER Bills Are So High?

Ever Wondered Why ER Bills Are So High?We rarely repost others’ postings in this blog, because it hurts our pride to admit someone else has the answers.But in this case, we are reposting Dr. Eric Bricker’s very cogent analysis of why ER bills are so much higher than electives. I recently compared total joint replacement pricing for a number of hospitals to Medicare. While there was a great deal of variation (as has been documented many times), the surprise to me was that the average was only ab

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November 15, 2021 2 min read

Ignore the new prostate cancer guidelines

Never in the history of Quizzify have we proposed ignoring guidelines, but the National Comprehensive Cancer Network just backtracked its guidelines for low-risk localized prostate cancer from saying “active surveillance is preferred,” to telling doctors they should equally weigh and propose radiation therapy, surgery, and surveillance for those cancers. This is like in the old days (meaning 10+ years ago) when lots of surgeries were done on prostates, with basically nothing to show for them.

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November 9, 2021 4 min read

How to Knock a Digit out of ER Claims

This is the second part of the Quizzify Prevent Consent series. The first part focused on the health equity issue of minimizing that large chunk of ER claims that employees are responsible for. This part focuses on making sure employees use the Consent, to knock at least one digit out of allowed ER claims.By way of review, the Quizzify ER Sticker Shock Prevent Consent reads:"Superseding other consents, I consent to responsibility (including insurance) for up to 2 times Medicare, following receip

Illustration for “Avoiding Medical Bankruptcy: the Ultimate Health Equity Victory”

November 5, 2021 5 min read

Avoiding Medical Bankruptcy: the Ultimate Health Equity Victory

This is Part One of a Two-Part SeriesIf one issue exemplifies health equity, it’s the cost of healthcare itself and the differential impact of it on your hourly employees. They say you’re not supposed to start a blog post with statistics, but these statistics are too important to ignore: • 50% of Americans now carry medical debt • $140 billion is in collections • 18% of people have medical debt in collections, while… • …137 million people report problems paying medical bills • Half of all Americ

Illustration for “RIP The Baby Aspirin”

October 13, 2021 3 min read

RIP The Baby Aspirin

by Al LewisThe recommendation to take a daily baby aspirin (81 milligrams) as a blood thinner to prevent a heart attack or stroke has a long history. At one point, decades ago, it was totally a thing. At least until it wasn’t, when wiser minds than ours realized: 1. for lower-risk people, thinning the blood increased the likelihood and risk of bleeds more than the benefit of event avoidance; and 2. a little five-cent pill based on a 19th-century technology was not going to eliminate the #1 cause

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October 9, 2021 5 min read

Six Things To Know about Sleeping Pills

Better sleeping through chemistry? Employees need to know the risks…In case you missed the last edition of Six Things, it was all about sleep hygiene. We were originally going to lump sleep medications in with sleep hygiene, but, based on what Quizzify has learned from responses to its sleep quizzes, there is enough misunderstanding on the subject of sleep meds that we decided to create a dedicated “Six Things” post, rather than append it to the previous one.Wellness programs need to recogni

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August 25, 2021 5 min read

Why are surprise bills like cockroaches?

Spray Raid on cockroaches and you think you’ve killed them dead. You do kill a few visible ones, but the others just scurry out of view.Likewise, spraying the No Surprises Act on surprise bills will kill the highly visible headline-making bills -- like the infamous $11,000 COVID test – dead.But most other surprise bills are just scurrying out of view. The large majority of surprise bills are indeed already “out of view,” because they come from in-network providers. This is largely because the v

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June 29, 2021 3 min read

Quizzify earns total victory in surprise bill dispute

Imagine having a surprise bill reduced 95.3%, from $14,269.30 to $674. And that's without going to court, without conceding a nickel from your initial offer, without trying to qualify for an oxymoronic “financial assistance program,” without hiring an attorney, and even without agreeing to an NDA. (We’ll name the hospital on request. To name it here seems like piling on, and we’re gloating enough as it is.)That was the good news delivered to Florida resident James Hamilton this week, following a

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June 28, 2021 4 min read

How Quizzify weaponizes direct hospital contracting

This is the sequel to Quizzify earns total victory in surprise bill dispute. By way of background, the actual language is now: • Superseding form consents, I consent to responsibility (including insurance) for up to 2 times Medicare following receipt of an itemized bill for appropriate treatment.Putting this language right on your employees’ insurance card protects them from being overcharged, or forced into arbitration. It covers all non-elective care except free-standing ERs and ambulance

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June 22, 2021 2 min read

Review of Never Pay the First Bill

This is the best health policy book ever, largely because it’s not about making health policy. It’s conclusion: individuals and employers are going to have to make their own “policies.” Why? Well, when you read this book to truly understand this industry, you’ll be shocked, shocked to find that lying is going on in here!I'll tell you who's not lying, and that's Quizzify. We are the only vendor featured in the two most recent bestselling healthcare policy books -- this one and The Price We Pay,

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May 28, 2021 5 min read

The ticks are back...and they're hungry.

So this article focuses on lesser-known tick factoids. This list will sound scary, but keep in mind that millions of us are bitten by ticks every year. Read more in Al Lewis', CEO of Quizzify, latest article.

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May 17, 2021 4 min read

Just because it's healthcare doesn't mean it's good for you.

The Birth of Quizzify (“Does wondering how Quizzify got started keep you up at night? Wonder no longer”) describes how massive overdiagnosis and overtreatment inspired Al Lewis to start Quizzify. Read more in Quizzify's latest blog post.

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April 12, 2021 6 min read

10 Take-aways from our COVID Vaccine Hesitancy webinar with the CDC’s Dr. Singleton

First, we’d like to thank both Drs. Christa-Marie Singleton and Scott Conard for making this one of our three best-ever and most popular webinars, rivalling our EEOC webinar on the new wellness rules, and our Hospital Financial Ethics/Surprise Billing webinar featuring Dr. Marty Makary and Leah Binder. Second, the recording is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ0_iD5msEsMost importantly, we’d like to recap the greatest hits from that webinar. While many of these are already covered i

Illustration for “Surprise Bill Update: We're Winning!”

April 7, 2021 4 min read

Surprise Bill Update: We're Winning!

Reminder: today's 1 PM EDT webinar is very timely: Overcoming Vaccine Hesitancy. It features the CDC's Dr. Christa-Marie Singleton along with uberguru Dr. Scott Conard. Register here to attend or get the recording. We promised real-time updates on James Hamilton, who got hit with a $12,900 bill for an in-network ER visit (+$1750 in physician fees) that Medicare would have allowed less than $350 for. His insurance initially paid a little more than $2000. Read our blog post now!

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February 22, 2021 4 min read

Busting the myths of the COVID Vaccine

While the large majority of us can’t wait to get our vaccine, polls reveal that about a third of people intend to decline it, including 15% of healthcare workers. About a third of the military already has declined it. Hopefully this article will clear up some misunderstandings about this vaccine, which is truly the greatest medical advance of the century. Specifically, both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are about 95% effective in preventing infection, and close to 100% effective in preventing

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January 26, 2021 5 min read

EEOC wellness regulations || Wellness Rules || EEOC Wellness Rules

Cut to the chase and sign up for Monday's 1 PM webinar here, and/or contact us directly since EEOC wellness regulations program compliance suddenly matters! Read more EEOC wellness regulations, Wellness Rules.

Illustration for “January Valid Vendor of the Month: Nova Healthcare Administrators”

January 13, 2021 5 min read

January Valid Vendor of the Month: Nova Healthcare Administrators

As a recipient of a 2020 Validation Institute Health Value Award for Health Plan Performance Management, Nova has come a long way since the days of typical TPA operations. Al Lewis highlights the changes at Nova and why it is Quizzify's January Valid Vendor of the Month.

Illustration for “EEOC releases strict new wellness incentive limits”

January 11, 2021 4 min read

EEOC releases strict new wellness incentive limits

The EEOC just released their new wellness rules. There are a few things you need to know about them and Al Lewis highlights them all for you in Quizzify's latest blog post.

Illustration for “New COVID variant will be reaching your group soon”

January 3, 2021 3 min read

New COVID variant will be reaching your group soon

As though the current COVID isn’t transmissible enough, this new variant spreads 70% more easily. Hence 70% more urgency to educate your employees/members here and now. Learn more here in Al Lewis' latest blog post.