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Price Transparency: Everything You Need To Know
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Things You'll Get From This Course
Breakdowns
Hands-On Learning
Expert Instructors
Inspiration
Meet Your Instructors
Chris Severn
Chris is the Co-Founder and CEO of Turquoise Health, a startup focused on simplifying healthcare reimbursement through price transparency. His background spans 10+ years modeling managed care contracts at Cloudmed as a Product Manager and heading machine learning projects for hospital payment integrity at Arcosta. Chris recently testified in front of Congress on lowering health care costs through transparency and competition.
Carol Skenes
Carol is Turquoise Health’s subject matter expert on all price transparency Final Rules, laws, and legislation, with a specific focus on the revenue cycle and the payer/provider landscape. She has spent over 12 years working in healthcare, primarily focusing on payment review and denials management, revenue integrity, CDM optimization, EHR automation, and price transparency.
Arian Akhavan
Arian is the Head of Data Product at Turquoise Health, leading the charge in making price transparency data accessible and usable for all. He previously spent five years working on outpatient coding and charge capture projects at Triage Consulting Group and Nordic Consulting Partners.
Course Syllabus & Schedule
Module 1
Day 1
Intro, Legislation and Rules, and the New Payer/Provider Landscape
(8/21, 6-7 PM ET)
Module 2
Day 2
Estimates and Use Cases
(8/22, 6-7 PM ET)
Module 3
Day 3
Technical components of price transparency data
(8/23, 6-7 PM ET)
Module 4
Day 4
Module 5
Day 5
Module 6
Day 6
Module 7
Day 7
Module 8
Day 8
Module 9
Day 9
Module 10
Day 10
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is this course for?
Anyone who wants to learn about price transparency, the impact it's having on the entire healthcare landscape, and the data that has been made available.
- Consumers interested in learning about healthcare costs, estimates, and what’s being done to make everything more transparent.
- Healthcare industry vets across trying to learn how price transparency is affecting their roles (providers, payers, consultants.. anybody, really).
- Innovators trying to use price transparency as an opportunity to improve the patient experience or reduce the burden and cost of administration.
How much is it?
Free. There’s some price transparency for ya.
Do I have to be at every session?
No, but our feelings will be hurt if you skip class.
Is there a lot of work?
There will be some optional assignments that align with the course, but you’ll be able to complete them without a large time commitment.