David Toomey

The math says no. Attempts at making costs transparent only touch a tiny fraction of healthcare spending.

While it’s hard to dispute the benefits of insurance for everyone, we still must cut the cost of healthcare.

How do we move beyond the marketing campaigns to understand healthcare suppliers’ performance?

“Physicians overestimate the benefits of everything from interventions for back pain to cancer chemotherapy.”

No. 5: Miscoding can render analysis meaningless -- one company didn't know it was paying for 25 organ transplants a year.

A fundamental problem: 8% of employees represent 80% of healthcare costs -- and the 8% changes every 12 to 18 months.

Hospital mergers and acquisitions of physician practices keep driving up costs. It's high time we changed the equation.

Even if the cost per unit of service is standardized, extremely wide variation exists in how patients are treated for given conditions.

The big question is: Why are more self-insured employers not engaging directly with healthcare providers?

Healthcare providers have processes that are wildly inefficient -- but that can be fixed with a little input from self-insured employers.