Straight Talk on How We Spend Your Money
Want the Straight Talk on how we spend your money? Healthcare Economist Mike Bertaut lays it out, in plain English, in this video from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana.
Tag: drugs
Prohibition or Prescription? The Status of Medical Marijuana and Health Insurance
You’ve got to love America. We have a long history of love/hate relationships with mood-altering substances, which we have often described as having “medicinal value” until science stops us cold. Of course, these scientific studies in medicine often never catch up to folklore, which exists everywhere in our culture in the form of things we “know” but cannot prove.
Straight Talk Podcast, Episode 3
In this edition of the Straight Talk podcast, Mike Bertaut talks with Brice Mohundro, a clinical pharmacist at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana, about the opioid epidemic in the United States.
Prescription Drug Safety Saves Lives
Note: This week, Mike is letting members of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana’s Clinical Services team give you Straight Talk on how the national opioid epidemic is affecting Louisiana, and what we are doing to help everyone lower their risks and prevent prescription drug abuse.
Straight Talk to Video: Part II
Drug Company Magic: What’s the fastest growing thing that affects the cost of your health insurance premiums? The answer may surprise you.
Drug Company Magic, Part 3
“Did you know that health insurance companies that participate in federal or state programs also have stricter gross margin/profit caps on that business? For example, the Medicaid health plans in Louisiana have to pay state and local taxes, and they pay for all administration on 15 percent of the payments they get from the state for managing care of Medicaid patients.”