Nobody In Washington Understands Employer Healthcare | with Katy Talento
Katy Talento ran healthcare at the White House Domestic Policy Council and helped push through the price transparency executive order. Now she runs health plans for a living, including for the convent where she once lived as a nun.
She spends this episode on why a post-network world keeps hitting the same wall: the three-way contracts between carrier, TPA, and provider that make the network Plan A by force. She explains why she thinks those provisions violate the Sherman Act, what DOJ has started doing about it, and why the workarounds employers use today amount to an underground railroad…
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