Voices for Smarter, Better Healthcare

HealthSparq’s General Manager Mark Menton recently sat down with the Slice of Healthcare podcast to chat about our company and ...

Our team met with CMS to discuss MRF data elements that pose significant challenges to health plans as they work toward compliance with Transparency in Coverage mandates.

Providing more detailed provider information alone will not help solve decades of unequal access to care and discrimination toward women, people of color, and others. But provider directories do offer an opportunity for health plans to empower people to search for the right provider for them and find a provider ...

To take the Transparency in Coverage mandate to the next level and create a competitive advantage, we suggest three strategies to expand on the self-service tool requirements.

The new federal guidance on healthcare price transparency mandates answers some important questions for health insurers and employer groups, and puts some compliance elements on pause.

While it is great to see attention being paid to price transparency, let’s not get distracted by movie stars talking about rack rate pricing on hospital websites. That information doesn’t really tell people what they’re actually going to pay, so it’s at best confusing and at worst misleading and/or discouraging ...

HealthSparq’s recent research whitepaper “A Provider Like Me: Research Into Preferences, Care Selection, and Bias in Healthcare” highlighted how people ...

While price transparency was the headline of this recent keynote, the panelists focused on the larger picture of what members need today and how providing them with critical information about costs is an avenue to improve the healthcare experience. Below are three key themes that stood out from the panel.

Based on our 2021 consumer research, it’s clear that health plan members want more from their health plans, including accurate ...