December 04, 2006
Growing health advocacy industry takes pressure off individuals
Crain's Cleveland Business, December 4, 2006
Tom Bregar spent two years writing what he calls the "perfect software program" to flush out errors and reconcile and compile medical bills and insurance. In 2002, he turned his idea into MedBill Advantage—his Broadview Heights company that is part health-service- and part technology-based. Today, MedBill Advantage is part of a growing industry of health advocates geared toward helping busy and overwhelmed patients work their way through the health care maze. "This is an outgrowth of taking care of grandma's bills from a shoebox," said J.B. Silvers, faculty director of the Health Systems Management Center in Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management. Read article. (subscription required)
Posted by: Heidi Cool, December 4, 2006 12:25 PM | News Topics: Business, Crain's Cleveland Business, Health, Weatherhead School of Management
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