Publications

Checkbook Health Publications

Checkbook Health regularly publishes articles focused on healthcare policy and consumer issues in healthcare. Read some of our previous work below.

Insurers, researchers, and consumers are struggling with the price transparency files required under the No Surprises Act. This post reviews how a public network ID could make these files smaller …

Part of helping consumers shop for health insurance is helping them determine which plans offer the coverage for their medication needs with the lowest costs and the fewest hassles. Health …

Healthcare shopping is highly complex, and consumers often have a hard time understanding the financial impact of choices they or their doctors make. In practice, healthcare shopping remains so burdensome …

Checkbook/CSS Response to CMS RFI for a National Directory of Healthcare Providers CMS’s proposed NDH would provide critical infrastructure to ease burden on providers and insurers and improve accuracy; clear …

While the subject of provider directory accuracy has received a great deal of attention, much less has been written about the user experience (UX) of provider directories.  As students of …

If retiring from federal service is on your agenda for 2022, make sure you’re qualified to receive FEHB health coverage once you leave because it far outweighs any other available …