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| Services called Quit Wasting My Healthcare is | | | | |
| focused on helping individuals and employers | | | | Not reading it is a lost opportunity to learn |
| receive higher quality care and stop losing | | | | something smart about healthcare. |
| money on senseless healthcare costs. Quit | | | | |
| Wasting My Healthcare is written by | | | | About Compass: |
| healthcare experts: a physician and a former | | | | |
| hospital finance executive. They form a team | | | | Compass Professional Health Services was |
| with integrated clinical and economic acumen | | | | established in 2005 with the mission to help |
| that is so badly needed in today's healthcare | | | | employers and individuals lower their |
| world. The writers have seen the | | | | healthcare costs while maintaining or |
| frustration, the inefficiency and the | | | | improving the quality. Our employees and |
| substandard care that is the US healthcare | | | | leadership bring unparalleled expertise in |
| system from the front lines. The writers | | | | provider charge structures, patient guidance, |
| also have the data and have identified over | | | | and health satisfaction metrics. This |
| $1 billion of waste in just one major | | | | experience uniquely positions Compass as a |
| metropolitan area alone. Employers are | | | | leader in employee healthcare support. Our |
| getting fleeced. Patients are not getting | | | | services return control to the patient in a |
| the care they deserve. Quit Wasting My | | | | way that benefits the entire healthcare |
| Healthcare is your guide to the underlying | | | | system. Better care, lower costs, happier |
| problems and their solutions. | | | | patients - employers who use Compass see the |
| | | | difference. |
| Quit Wasting My Healthcare takes insider | | | | |
| provider know-how, turns it around and gives | | | | Mission: |
| it to you in easy to understand language so | | | | |
| that you can navigate the broken US | | | | The Mission of Compass Professional Health |
| healthcare system. Recent posts include | | | | Services is to enable consumers and employers |
| topics such as: | | | | to receive and purchase higher value |
| | | | healthcare. |
| (1) Using co-insurance to drive change | | | | |
| | | | Vision |
| (2) $1,000 CT scans of questionable | | | | |
| | | | Vision: |
| (3) Price differences of over 200% even | | | | |
| within network | | | | The Vision of Compass Professional Health |
| | | | Services is to be the premier provider of |
| You'll find ideas on employer health benefit | | | | information and services that shift consumer |
| plan designs, thoughts on saving money when | | | | and physician behavior towards lower cost and |
| visiting the doctor, and comments on the | | | | higher quality care. |
| politics of healthcare in the United States. | | | | |
| | | | Philosophy: |
| If you are a company CFO or president, if you | | | | |
| work in employee benefits, if you are a | | | | Every person has the power to become a better |
| healthcare professional or if you work in the | | | | healthcare consumer. |
| insurance industry, then Quit Wasting My | | | | |