Last night’s “60 Minutes” broadcast featured a lawsuit over the consolidation of a large health system in Northern California, which used its monopolistic capabilities to drive up the price of healthcare. The segment included KHC friend and past conference speaker Elizabeth Mitchell, CEO for the Pacific Business Group on Health, […]
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Hospital Price Study Reveals Kentucky Lower than National Rates but Disconnect Between Quality and Cost in Kentucky’s Hospitals
Prices paid by employers to Kentucky hospitals continue to be less than the national average but more than twice the rate paid to Medicare, while quality still lags behind the rest of the country, according to a national study released this month. RAND 3.0, the third in a series of […]
Driving Affordability Through Hospital Price Transparency
A Community Health Forum December 1, 2020 U.S. employers spend billions of dollars on healthcare services. However, a lack of information limits the ability of employers to monitor the prices negotiated on their behalf, to implement innovative insurance benefit designs, and to ensure insurers are negotiating favorable prices. If employers […]
2021 KHC 7th Annual Conference
KHC 7TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE March 10, 2021
WHO Declares COVID-19 Outbreak a Pandemic on Day of KHC Annual Conference, Making for a Memorable Event
More than a week before the March 11 KHC 2020 Annual Conference, the KHC began making adjustments to meet the COVID-19 best practice guidelines for events in response to the quickly changing landscape of the spread of the virus. That all changed when COVID-19 reached Louisville on March 8, just […]
KHC Annual Conference Speakers Answer Your Questions
The KHC 2020 Annual Conference was one of the first event casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic, as the World Health Organization officially classified it as a pandemic on March 11, the day of the conference. Three days before this, Louisville recorded its first known case of COVID-19, otherwise known as […]
KHC Pain Symposium Goes Virtual
Because nothing is more important than the health and safety of our community and partners, we have decided to make KHC’s April 22 Pain Symposium a virtual event out of an abundance of caution for the spread of COVID-19. Much of the event will stay the same including the date […]
KHC Annual Conference Goes VIRTUAL this Wednesday
The KHC has been monitoring the COVID-19 outbreak closely. In light of these unusual and fluid circumstances, this weekend’s news of Louisville’s first confirmed case of the virus, and Kentucky’s updated guidelines for social distancing, we are changing the KHC 2020 Annual Conference to a virtual event. As you know, […]
Important Information About KHC Annual Conference
We have been monitoring the situation with COVID-19 and any potiential impact on the KHC Annual Conference next Wednesday, March 11. We have been assessing the conference risk with KHC Executive Board Member Dr. Sarah Moyer, Director of the Louisville Department of Public Health and Wellness, and are following CDC […]