{"id":1132,"date":"2011-02-24T09:55:42","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T17:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2011-03-15T09:58:54","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T17:58:54","slug":"1132","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/1132\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/doctor-writing-in-the-chart-of-alcohol-rehab-patient.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1133\" title=\"health\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/doctor-writing-in-the-chart-of-alcohol-rehab-patient-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/doctor-writing-in-the-chart-of-alcohol-rehab-patient-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/doctor-writing-in-the-chart-of-alcohol-rehab-patient-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/doctor-writing-in-the-chart-of-alcohol-rehab-patient-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/doctor-writing-in-the-chart-of-alcohol-rehab-patient-55x55.jpg 55w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Open Health Market has a new way for potential employers to buy health  care services. They are matching self-insured businesses with medical  providers through direct contracts. What this does is bypasses normal  traditional insurance. Businesses will post a request for proposal and a  provider, located anywhere, can compete for that business. A little  more than a third of New Hampshire health insurance members were  self-insured in 2008. Efforts have dramatically increased to get  business such as theirs. Consumers have proven they will travel for  services and that opens the door for companies like Open Health Market.<\/p>\n<p>A director of associate health and wellness was able to negotiate prices  for hip replacements from $50,000 to $18,000 after investigating that  he could send people to Singapore for $10,000.<\/p>\n<p>Under the current PPO of health insurance, consumers have a wide variety  of hospitals they can choose from. If Open Health Market succeeds that  will change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Health Market has a new way for potential employers to buy health care services. They are matching self-insured businesses with medical providers through direct contracts. What this does is bypasses normal traditional insurance. Businesses&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[381,658,657],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-health-2","tag-new-hampshire-health","tag-open-health-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}