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Why Price Transparency Isn’t Enough: The Importance of Incentives in Driving Smarter Healthcare Decisions

Why Price Transparency Isn’t Enough: The Importance of Incentives in Driving Smarter Healthcare Decisions

Information is not enough to change member behavior. Discover the role financial incentives play in ...

March • 2026
Building a Value-Based Care Strategy: Controlling Costs with High-Value Healthcare Options

Building a Value-Based Care Strategy: Controlling Costs with High-Value Healthcare Options

Learn how value-based healthcare models can reduce costs and improve member outcomes. Vālenz ...

March • 2026
How Transparency in Healthcare Shapes Patient Choices to Deliver High-Value Care

How Transparency in Healthcare Shapes Patient Choices to Deliver High-Value Care

Learn how healthcare pricing transparency tools like Valenz Bluebook help health plans save money ...

December • 2025
Understanding Healthcare Navigation: A Key Tool in Engaging Early and Often for Better Care Outcomes

Understanding Healthcare Navigation: A Key Tool in Engaging Early and Often for Better Care Outcomes

Learn how healthcare navigation solutions from Valenz Health can deliver higher savings for members ...

November • 2025
Eliminating Ghost Networks: How Vālenz Health® is Redefining Provider Network Directories

Eliminating Ghost Networks: How Vālenz Health® is Redefining Provider Network Directories

Learn how Valenz Health is working to eliminate healthcare ghost networks with industry-leading ...

November • 2025
Breast Cancer Awareness Month: The Cost of a Mammogram vs. the Price of Inaction

Breast Cancer Awareness Month: The Cost of a Mammogram vs. the Price of Inaction

Learn how Valenz Health helps plan members locate high-value, low-cost breast cancer screening and ...

October • 2025
Achieving NSA and TiC Compliance: 3 Ways Vālenz Health® Supports TPAs

Achieving NSA and TiC Compliance: 3 Ways Vālenz Health® Supports TPAs

Learn how Valenz Health helps TPAs and the self-funded employers they serve ensure No Surprises Act ...

October • 2025
Mastering No Surprises Act Compliance: How Payment Integrity Shields Employers from Skyrocketing IDR Costs

Mastering No Surprises Act Compliance: How Payment Integrity Shields Employers from Skyrocketing IDR Costs

Discover how the latest compliance and repricing solution from Valenz Health can help reduce the ...

October • 2025
How the New Executive Order Could Affect Healthcare Pricing Transparency

How the New Executive Order Could Affect Healthcare Pricing Transparency

A new executive order renews the push for insurers and providers to fully disclose pricing ...

March • 2025
Health Literacy: Key to Protecting the Patient and the Employer in Self-Insurance

Health Literacy: Key to Protecting the Patient and the Employer in Self-Insurance

Health literacy means patients and employers know how to effectively use that healthcare cost and ...

November • 2024
How Care Bundles and Member Navigation Drive Improved Savings and Quality

How Care Bundles and Member Navigation Drive Improved Savings and Quality

Vālenz Health® is delivering innovative pricing methodology informed by multiple streams of data ...

September • 2024
Top 5 Healthcare Benefit Challenges and How To Solve Them

Top 5 Healthcare Benefit Challenges and How To Solve Them

Discover the top five healthcare benefit challenges and strategies employers and plan sponsors can ...

June • 2022
CMS Finalizes Transparency in Coverage Rule: What Happens Next?

CMS Finalizes Transparency in Coverage Rule: What Happens Next?

CMS announces final Transparency in Coverage Rule requiring health insurers and self-insured health ...

November • 2020
Shannon Saved $1,500 with Valenz Bluebook's Transparency Solution

Shannon Saved $1,500 with Valenz Bluebook's Transparency Solution

Shannon used Healthcare Bluebook and saved $1,500 on an MRI just by choosing a lower-cost facility.

September • 2019

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